The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.
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One practitioner of science is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.Loren Eiseley
Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable.... Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely.... So important does nature regard this unseen combustion ... that a starving mans brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed.
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From the solitude of the wood, Man has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
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Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
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The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
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If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
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