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“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.”

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Book:Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Source: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.”

“Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.”

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Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.”

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Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems

“Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim can not resolve?”

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Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.”

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Book:Spirit Matters

Source: Spirit Matters