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“What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.”

Way Book Stories Shows Earth Wonder Sea Possibility Inspire Ocean Blind Extremes Awe Immortal Insightful Immense Worms Zombie Better Ways Unicorn Awe And Wonder Jellyfish

Author:Enric Sala

“Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.”

Knows Men Mind Science Knowledge Know How Inspire Awe Old Man Reverence

Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.”

Men Years Stills Ideas America Black President Inspire Kings Shots Awe Forty Luther Balconies

Author:Charlie Pierce

“A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.”

Ifs Persons Feelings Cutting Inspire Personality Spring Psychological Unconscious Awe Reverence Psychological Health

Author:Robert Johnson

“I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.”

Thinking Wells Inspire Draws Curiosity Intimacy Awe Cabinets Grotesque

Author:Anna Journey

“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.”

Ifs Men Mind Humans Science Universe Wonder Inspire Genius Intellect Dues Variety Height Awe Contemplating Abyss Richness Ineptitude

Book:Astronomicon

Source: Astronomicon

“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission. No committee decides who may enter, no crisis of body or spirit must accompany the entrant. No tuition is charged, no oath sworn, no visa demanded. Of the monuments humans build for themselves, very few say - touch me, use me, my hush is not indifference, my space is not barrier. If I inspire awe, it is because I am in awe of you and the possibilities that dwell in you.”

“Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.”

Whole Together Force Cities Inspire Billions Tiny Snow Awe Fragile Delicate Screws Screw Ups Majestic Snowflake Forces Of Nature Ethereal

Author:Betty White

“I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centred on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than all phenomena modern science is confronting, the UFO can inspire awe, the sense of the smallness of man, and an idea of the possibility of contact with the cosmic. The religions we have briefly surveyed began with the miraculous experiences of one person, but to-day there are thousands for whom the belief in otherworldly contact is based on intimate conviction, drawn from what they regard as personal contact with UFOs and their occupants.”

“The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.”

States Purpose Inspire Punishment Awe Capital Punishment

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness