In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, bot...h activities produce a sense of awe and a curious mixture of humility and arrogance in their practitioners. All great scientists are inspired by the subtlety and beauty of the natural world that they are seeking to understand. Each new subatomic particle, every unexpected object, produces delight and wonderment. In constructing their theories, physicists are frequently guided by arcane concepts of elegance in the belief that the universe is intrinsically beautiful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our... anger, but to do as nature does--that is, fill us with wonderment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With his mother gaunt and lean In the valley warm and green,... Full of baby wonderment, Blinking out of silly eyes At a hundred mysteries;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelli...gence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »