"We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are."

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Source : "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

Carl Sagan

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“The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.”
“We all want to do the will of God, and we know that there is nothing nearer to His heart than the evangelization of the world.”
“I know I'm no Whitney Houston.”
“It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.”
“I am like the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily.”

Source : "Actress Tania Raymonde talks 'Texas Chainsaw 3D'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. January 3, 2013.
“Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.”
“The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.”

Source : Clive Bell (1987). “Art”
“I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.”

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