Wonder

I just wanted him to keep staring at the bird, because we both know that it could fly away at any moment.

Where do the mermaids stand? Answer that question, and you could build a school, a nation, or a whole world on it.

That's the power of truth and learning and excellence — the search for what it is that ignites the human spirit, overcoming the unexpected and discovering the unknown. That's what life is all about.

Never be so canny as to ignore the uncanny.

Even Terminus, the god of limits, refused to recognize that limits are everything. The open sky above his head testified to his yearning to escape the ground beneath his feet.

Your job is to witness. To witness, to understand, to comprehend, and to celebrate. To celebrate with your lives.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

We human beings are grand because we have the power to understand. We ask questions about nature and most remarkably, we can construct mathematical models which explain how it works.

Our curiosity combined with our uncanny ability to find explanations defines us.

We are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.