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Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.
Charles Dickens
The where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically , and so, eventually, it does.People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is .There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle .
Terry Pratchett
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. But the Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan
My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.
Steve Jobs
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Albert Camus
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other
She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?
Cassandra Clare
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
Steven Wright
Philosophy begins in wonder.