Lewis Carroll Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• "She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Science, Knives

  Lewis Carroll (1929). “Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass and Other Comic Pieces”

• 'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied.

  Lewis Carroll

  Science, Names, Gnats

  Lewis Carroll (2017). “Alice in Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: All Four Books”, p.87, Lulu.com

• "Try another Subtraction sum. Take a bone from a dog: what remains?" [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. "The bone wouldn't remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn't remain; it would come to bite me-and I'm sure I shouldn't remain!" "Then you think nothing would remain?" said the Red Queen. "I think that's the answer." "Wrong, as usual," said the Red Queen, "the dog's temper would remain."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Queens, Science

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Through the Looking-Glass (Alice): Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.87, 谷月社

• "She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Queens, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice In Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hunting of the Snark and Alice Underground”, p.144, Enhanced Media Publishing

• "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."

  Lewis Carroll

  Kings, Real, Distance

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.53, PDFreeBooks.org

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