“You know we're constantly taking. We don't make most of the food we eat, we don't grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful ecstatic feeling to create something and put it into the pool of human experience and knowledge.” PeopleKnowsHumansMeanUseFeelingsScienceSpeakLanguageGrowsWonderKnowledgeWonderfulBuildingClothesMathematicsPoolHuman ExperienceEcstatic Author:Steve Jobs
“We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.” GodChristianReligionCausesEasyReligiousAnswersWonderChristianityLordKnowledgeMysteryObjectsTasksChristian InspirationalQuestioningBishopsEasy Answers Book:The Orthodox Way Source: The Orthodox Way
“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.” NeedsKindEndsPhilosophyStrongHeavenWonderKnowledgeProgressIgnoranceResearchPhilosophicalFoundationGenerousYieldHonour Author:Michel de Montaigne
“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsEndsOrderWonderKnowledgeIgnorancePhilosophicalIgnorantUtilityOwingPuzzledUtilitarian Author:Aristotle
“Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.” IfsShouldLightScienceSpeakSoundWonderKnowledgeHeardLipsFasterBossSync Author:Scott Adams
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.” InspirationalInspiringBusinessWonderKnowledgeDoubtRoots Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” LifeInspirationalWisdomWonderKnowledgeTeachWords Of WisdomIntelligenceCommunicateKnowledge WisdomSiddharthaKnowledge And WisdomSteppenwolfFortification Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.” FirstsPhilosophyWonderPrinciplesKnowledgeStudyMankindExpectationsDiscoveryAdvantageConnectionsLaysVariousAppearanceConcealedPrompts Author:Adam Smith