“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.”— Hans Christian Andersen
“The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”— Charles Kingsley
“In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.”— John Wesley Powell
“Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.”— Eric Temple Bell
“Among these temples there is one which is the chief of them all, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe.”— Hernán Cortés
“The human body, in its beauty and complexity, is a source of wonder and a guide to understanding our nature.”— Leon Kass
“How great a pleasure, how great a delight for the mind... is to be rapt in admiration by the greatness of the mountains, by the theatre of Our Lord, and to raise one’s head, so to speak, into the clouds.”— Conrad Gessner
“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.”— Marie Curie
“The ways by which men arrive at knowledge of the celestial things are hardly less wonderful than the nature of these things themselves.”— Johannes Kepler