I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
A leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars.
Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
