I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep — great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
Edward M. PurcellTags: science rich beauty world delight wonder universe strange earth discovery snow awe senses nobel-laureate reward magnetic-field experiments protons
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.
J. Tuzo WilsonTags: science life theories nature wonder admiration elegance geology woods scientist plate-tectonics scenery scientific-theories laboratory lab
I wonder how you survived with those sugary lips; maybe there is no ant in your territory.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: wonder survive territory lips sugary
The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are behaving in a way that cannot be explained by what is already known, then another planet is searched for which would explain their behavior. This, he says, is actually how the more distant planets were discovered. We look, then, for something that would explain what is not inexplicable from what we already see.
N.T. WrightThe text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
J. Norman CollieTags: science reading learning how questions why wonder curiosity discovery explorer scientist textbook mountaineer
...But wondering takes time, and most of the people of the neighborhood were hard-working people, and so they gradually began to forget.
Zipha Keatley SnyderTags: wonder
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