The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

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

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I would ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

Wonder-which is the seed of knowledge.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

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

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.