"We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly……" — Richard Dawkins

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• I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting… — Nadia Boulanger
• Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited.… — Simone de Beauvoir
• Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud… — Charles Caleb Colton
• I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living. — Enid Bagnold
• The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the… — Ronald Reagan
• The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological… — Lewis Thomas
• Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and… — Thomas Aquinas
• Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that… — Lewis Thomas
• Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and… — Baruch Spinoza
• What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment.… — Saint John Chrysostom
• In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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