Let us now consider, for a little while, how wonderfully we stand upon this world. Here it is we are born, bred, and live, and yet we view these things with an almost entire absence of wonder to ourselves respecting the way in which all this happens. So small, indeed, is our wonder, that we are never taken by surprise.

On the Various Forces of Nature and Their Relations to Each Other: A, Course of Lectures Delivered Before a Juvenile Audience at the Royal, Institution, Lecture I (p. 14), George Routledge & Sons. New York, USA. 1874