It may be possibletoset up a nuclear reaction inuranium by which vast amounts of power could be released† This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of†extremely powerful bombs of a new type.

-Einstein, Albert
  Letter to President Franklin D Roosevelt.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

-Gould, Glenn
Quoted by Lorraine Monk at the Commencement  Address,York University, Toronto, 6 Nov1982.

Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place† The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose whichwe find it actually toanswer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.

-Paley,William
  NaturalTheology, ch.1.