The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran

When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
George Carlin

Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
Steven Wright

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift