Michael Faraday started the Royal Institution Christmas lectures in 1825 and said the following:

“Let us consider, for a little while, how wonderfully we stand upon the world. Here it is that we are born and bred and live. And yet we view these things with an entire absence of wonder to ourselves respecting the way in which all this happens.”

Richard Dawkins gave the 5 hour-long Christmas lectures in 1991, on “Waking up in the universe” — the origin of life. All five lectures are in a torrent which I’ve hosted here.