
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Variant: You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
"Foreword".
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
“It isn’t given to very many men to have their dreams come true in their lifetimes.”
The Burning World, p. 58
The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
Source: The Decision makers (1989), Ch. 10. The Competitors
“What is promised to you in dreams is given to you in dreams!”
“It seems that thought itself has a power for which it has never been given credit.”
Source: Frankenstein's Castle (1980), p. 16
Part I : Contemporary Issues in Science, Ch. 1 : "The Scientist as Rebel"; this first appeared in New York Review of Books (25 May 1995).
The Scientist As Rebel (2006)
Context: There is no such thing as a unique scientific vision, any more than there is a unique poetic vision. Science is a mosaic of partial and conflicting visions. But there is one common element in these visions. The common element is rebellion against the restrictions imposed by the locally prevailing culture, Western or Eastern as the case may be. It is no more Western than it is Arab or Indian or Japanese or Chinese. Arabs and Indians and Japanese and Chinese had a big share in the development of modern science. And two thousand years earlier, the beginnings of science were as much Babylonian and Egyptian as Greek. One of the central facts about science is that it pays no attention to East and West and North and South and black and yellow and white. It belongs to everybody who is willing to make the effort to learn it. And what is true of science is true of poetry.... Poetry and science are gifts given to all of humanity.