astonishing place

The world is an astonishing place, and that the idea that we have in our possession that basic tools needed to understand it is no more credible now than it was in Aristotle's day. That it has produced you, and me, and the rest of us is the most astonishing thing about it.

- Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception Is Almost Certainly False (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 7.