I should like to own a big astronomical telescope and a twenty-four-tune music-box.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
This was pointed out to me at Montreal, but the mistake is excusable, for evidently the more eyes we have in an astronomical expedition the better.
"Canadian Eclipse Party 1869"
Commander E. D. Ashe
We consider our present civilization as "fit"; but if astronomical changes should cause another ice age, we should discover that our "fitness" depended upon our ability to live on lichens, or on something we could grow by artificial light in the bowels of the earth.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair