It's based on wonder.

And that has a fascination.

Humans have long held a fascination for the human brain.

Above all, humanists asserted the genius of man ... the unique and extraordinary ability of the human mind.

Love of science and technology Twain was fascinated with science and scientific inquiry.

I'll start with my favorite muse, Emily Dickinson, who said that wonder is not knowledge, neither is it ignorance.

It's as if there's some schadenfreude there, that we actually take delight in people getting things wrong, so that we can then moan and groan and bitch at them.

This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience and later to become a psychotherapist.

And that wonder is really what has created the greatest cities, the greatest spaces that we have had.

The correspondence between Frederick and Voltaire, which spanned almost 50 years, was marked by mutual intellectual fascination.

The underlying thrust of his work was a fascination with the question of human survival and evolution.

The album juxtaposes antipathy towards US foreign policy against the group's deep fascination with the country, its open spaces, freedom, and ideals.

A few copies were distributed amongst his friends, but the bulk were, slightly morbidly, stored in his office at the Paris Conservatoire, to be sold upon his death.

It is revealed that the Seminole wanted the ghost orchid in order to manufacture a drug that causes fascination Laroche introduces this drug to Orlean.

Thematically, the album juxtaposes antipathy towards the United States against the band's deep fascination with the country, its open spaces, freedoms, and ideals.

Some people watch this event because of a NASCAR like fascination with things bumping and grinding. Burning the parachute as it fell that was last weekend.

He came from a musical family his father Cliff Townshend was a professional alto saxophonist in the Royal Air Force's dance band The Squadronaires and his mother Betty (née Dennis) was a singer with the Sydney Torch and Les Douglass Orchestras.

He was deeply fascinated by the Jews of Eastern Europe, who he thought possessed an intensity of spiritual life that was absent from Jews in the West.

And you can look at these pictures over and over again because there's such a strange, bizarre fascination in seeing these things you don't normally get to see come alive.

A Country Study by the U.S. Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress attributes this to a morbid competition with Hungary to curry Hitler's favor... hope of... regaining northern Transylvania.

Prior to the shootings and his eventual suicide, Duke spray painted a red V inside a red circle, a supposed allusion to his fascination with the graphic novel.

This show is a particular attraction for tourists because it is not just a firework display but an explosion of joy stimulated by the excitement of the pyrotechnic display.

Shortly afterward, she was invited to join the cast of the soap opera Fascinação of SBT in 1998, where she played the character Emília, his first major TV role.

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

At EG'08, Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an entertaining adventure through the mind of a creative obsessive.

It has been claimed that the young Churchill first developed his fascination with military matters from watching the many parades pass by the Vice Regal Lodge (now Áras an Uachtaráin, the official residence of the President of Ireland).

1994 01 Fascinação , Uga Uga and A Padroeira When she was thirteen years old, Mariana debuted on television in the soap opera 74.5 Uma Onda no Ar in Rede Manchete in 1994, making a cameo.

And for me, this sort of deep and enduring fascination with sound is what led me to both be a surgeon and also to study the science of sound, particularly music.

The fascination with the current phenomenon in Egypt transcends all geographical borders but in the Maldives there is a special significance as it brings back flashbacks of pro democracy protests held only a few years ago to bring democracy to the Indian Ocean island nation. Blogger Yaamyn writes

But they understood something more fundamental the sheer joy in discovery, the delight and fascination that we get from the world and being ourselves in it, the richness that we get from seeing, feeling and knowing the lives that we are.

Now, keeping these ideas firmly in mind, we can say that the experience of beauty is one of the ways that evolution has of arousing and sustaining interest or fascination, even obsession, in order to encourage us toward making the most adaptive decisions for survival and reproduction.

At the 2008 EG conference, famed puzzle designer Scott Kim takes us inside the puzzle maker's frame of mind. Sampling his career's work, he introduces a few of the most popular types, and shares the fascinations that inspired some of his best.

Look at the concentric rings that fall from the man you have his collar, then you've got a series of folds in the drapery that catch the light and sort of expand as they move down towards his arm. And then that motion is picked up by the beautiful gold brocade in the woman's dress, and then the folds on her hip. And so there really is a kind of harmony between those figures, and in some ways this painting is about harmony and disharmony, it's about alignment and things being askew.

As you can see from the pictures, both Noam and I had an early fascination with first principles, and over the years, as our knowledge of science and technology became more sophisticated, this early awe with the basics has only intensified.