The Commonplace Book

"The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder."

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead."

"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."

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

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."

"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life."

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."

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

"At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you."

"Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze."

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."