Awe Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Each component of this trinity of human endeavor—science, religion, and art—lays powerful claim to our feelings of wonder, which derive from an embrace of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge

— Abraham Joshua

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that…

— Adam Smith

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many…

— Bertrand Russell

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

— Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

— Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance…

— Michel de Montaigne

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that…

— Joseph Priestley

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some…

— Carl Sagan

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer…

— Huston Smith

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

— Henry Thomas Buckle