Wonder Quotes - Page 14

• In six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all the wonders therein. There are some of us who feel that He might have taken just a little more time.

  Kinky Friedman

  Taken, Heaven, Earth

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• Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?

  Stephen Hawking

  Ocean, Would Be, Sponges

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• Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.

  Carl Sagan

  Doe, Pseudoscience, Would Be

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Laughing

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• I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

  Dave Matthews

  Want, Wonder Of Life, Facts

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• The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?

  Katherine Losse

  Song, Boys, Rocks

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

  James Lee Burke

  Race, White, Vets

  James Lee Burke (2011). “Sunset Limited”, p.44, Island Books

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• Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure.

  William J. Clinton

  White, House, Done

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• I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Technology, Thinking, Years

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Beautiful, Ideas, Effort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a lot of time to smoke a cigar and sit around and do nothing and enjoy life-and wonder and ponder. I need time to think about how to conquer things. I am faced with the challenge of what I will do next and how will I do it.

  Mark Gonzales

  Thinking, Enjoy Life, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  People, Different, Firsts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A new study shows that the child population in San Francisco is dwindling and in fact San Francisco has the smallest share of children of any major city in the United States. That's odd, huh? For some reason couples in San Francisco don't seem to be reproducing as much as couples in other cities. Gee, I wonder what the problem is there? You think it might be something in the Rice-A-Roni?

  Jay Leno

  Children, Couple, Thinking

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• Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.

  Michael Lerner

  Fighting, Genuine Love, Awe And Wonder

  Michael Lerner (2000). “Spirit Matters”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• Wonder is not precisely knowing.

  Emily Dickinson

  Knowing

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.455, Harvard University Press

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• I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that just happen. We know them.

  Coleman Barks

  Thinking, Looks, Moments

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• Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Intelligent, Thinking

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• I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too.

  John Ashbery

  Dysfunction, People, Suffering

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• I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him, 'He can't see you.'

  Anne Robinson

  Benefits, Saws, Concerts

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• I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Squares, May, Harvard

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• The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Heart, Enough, Bigs

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• I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

  John Muir

  Lonely, Fall, Neighbor

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence”, p.38, Island Press

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• I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.

  Abigail Disney

  Political, Birth, Left

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Like a lot of other DJs, I've been wondering when the first DJ game was going to happen. Somebody even pitched me on their own idea and I thought, "I'm not a video game startup; I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this."

  DJ Shadow

  Games, Ideas, Video

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when our numbers are this huge and out of control. I wonder, what's the carrying capacity for human beings? When do we get to the point when we can't take it anymore, when it becomes too unpleasant to us just to be here because there's too many of us and there's no solitude anymore.

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Numbers, Solitude, Helping

  Source: www.believermag.com

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