Sometimes we see people who are wide-eyed with wonder. Children especially can appear this way, in part because of the size of their eyeballs. Our eyeballs grow very little during the course of our lives, and certainly not at the same rate as the rest of our bodies' organs. For that reason children stare at life with eyes bigger in proportion to their faces than those of adults. Compared with big people, children's eyes dominate their facial features and can thus appear more piercing and inquisitive.
