wonder Quotes

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories.

NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.