Aristotle's Wonder

I think that's what these kinds of experience provoke in us. It bespeaks a desire to grasp not just some part, but the whole thing. And when you begin asking these kinds of questions, you are engaging in philosophy. So philosophy begins with wonder and it seeks to know. This is something that the human being is made for. Aquinas would say we have intellects precisely so that we can know. I've had to come to groups with the fact that I'm not ever going to make it to the moon or Mars. We might send more people to those places, but I don't think they're going to choose me.