Wishing Wall

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

Eleanor Roosevelt - Diplomat

Nightstand of problems

Chess army

1. e4 e5
2. Qh5?! Nc6
3. Bc4 Nf6??
4. Qxf7# 1–0

Phlogiston

"... chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty, yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly, that [I'd die before I'd] change places with the Persian King."

Johann Joachim Becher - Alchemist and Cameralist

Windforce

"v = 0.836 B^3/2 m/s" 


Sir Francis Beaufort - Hydrographer

Transport

"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures"


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Snow Bollocks

"It's way too late to save my heart..." 


Gary Barlow - Popper