We all know that science is a wonderful thing, but are there certain things that amazed you when you were first made aware of it?
For me, its black holes. I was rather young when I heard about it, and the notion that something can be so massive that not even light escapes really captivated me. A while after, when I was about 8 years, my father let me borrow some of his books on astronomy, which is probably one of the reasons I got into physics.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is also something that boggles my mind. If you are not familiar with it, its basically a result of quantum mechanics. It's a "law" that puts an upper limit to how precise we can measure both the momentum and position of a particle. If we know the velocity of a particle with zero uncertainty, we have can have absolutely no knowledge of its position, it could literally be anywhere in the universe. And that's not because we don't have good enough system of measure, it's an intrinsic property of matter. It allows for such wonderful and mind-blowing things like virtual particle pairs and quantum tunneling.