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“"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."”

People Said I Can Real Light Eye Able Science Wish Can Do Kings Distance Observation Tone Through The Looking Glass

Book:Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There

Source: Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There

“From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar to the parent, and some of them superior to the parent in the qualities we wish to possess... Sexual reproduction is the chef d'oeuvre, the master-piece of nature.”

Young Science Wish Parent Quality Pieces Generations Masters Evolution Plant Seeds Improvement Superiors Variety Chef Reproduction

Book:The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin

Source: The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin

“Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.”

Truth Science Wish Change Freedom Behinds Cold Ocean Refuge Fence Wire Baths Freedom Of Thought Theological Barbed Wire

Author:Luther Burbank

“When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.”

“...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.”

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1851-1855

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1851-1855

“If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in due subordination to the fulness and freshness of their knowledge on moral subjects. ... Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.”