"When I heard the learn'd astronomer
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and cliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars."
-Walt Whitman
-now, that said, I think wonder might also be found by the astronomer in his 'elegant realms of math,' as it were, and in imagining the astronomical concepts and things beyond the range of vision, of course