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Wonder quotes

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“from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.” Charles Darwin, “On The Origin of Species” - 1859

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” - 1836

“Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.” Carl Sagan, “Contact” - 1985

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt. I fear. I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life” - 1903

“A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.” John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent” - 1961

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