“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”
Lewis Thomas
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Aristotle
“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor
“What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?”
Desiderius Erasmus
“People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.”
Will Rogers
“Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!”
Countee Cullen
“The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.”
Charles Baudelaire