Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
“Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Nick stared at him in astonishment. “Was that actually a smile? Shit, Pallas—all these years we’ve been working together, I wasn’t even… — Julie James Copy Share Image
A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects,… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that… — John Gould Copy Share Image
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“There was one panicked moment. He picked a book from the wall, and the shapes inside, all the letters, were friends to… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment. — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
That's an astonishment that we're waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.” — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
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