Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.
S.M. StirlingWords mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
S.M. Stirling