“The universe has yet to take my wishes under consideration.”

“...is under active consideration.”

“We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest.”

“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”

“... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.”

“Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.”