All my life, I've wondered about life beyond the earth.
In plain words
Wondering if there's life on other planets is a question worth asking your whole life.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Episode 2 'One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue' (1980; 1990 update), timestamp ~0:45, per Wikiquote's sourced section.
- Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Episode 2
- 1980 · television broadcast · Cosmos TV series narration
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Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
PlatoI don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
Sor Juana Inés de la CruzThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William ShakespeareWe live in a beautiful and wonderful world, and the more you know about it the wiser and the better you will be.
Louisa May AlcottThese are times in which a genius would wish to live.
Abigail AdamsPhilosophy is the microscope of the thought.
Victor Hugo
PlatoI don't study to know more, but to ignore less.Sor Juana Inés de la CruzThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William ShakespeareWe live in a beautiful and wonderful world, and the more you know about it the wiser and the better you will be.Louisa May AlcottThese are times in which a genius would wish to live.Abigail AdamsPhilosophy is the microscope of the thought.Victor Hugo