We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
- Shana AlexanderExplanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
- Eugene IonescoThe politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
- Max LernerAnthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
- Margaret MeadAnthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
- Margaret Mead