--- title: "2 Eat Light Quotes By William S. Wilson" description: "2 Eat Light quotes by William S. Wilson. Plus more from William S. Wilson and more Eat Light sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/164/william-s-wilson-31597_children_turning-and-climbing-the-double-helix-ev_2034722.jpg" --- > [“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of light. The appetite for light was ancient. Light had been eaten metaphorically in ritual transubstantiations. Poets had declared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/turning-and-climbing-the-double-helix-evolved-to-an-operation-which/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/164/william-s-wilson-31597_children_turning-and-climbing-the-double-helix-ev_2034722.jpg) > [“Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or cooled by intellectual feeling. And if we are surprised, and some of us disappointed, that the light is now only green…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/today-and-let-us-celebrate-this-fact-we-can-eat-the-light-of-our/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f66/william-s-wilson-31597_compassion_today-and-let-us-celebrate-this-fact-we_2560607.jpg) ## More by William S. Wilson > [“Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/every-problem-of-medicine-is-a-problem-of-language-and-this-operation/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/passionless-is-vulgar-metier-why-i-don-t-write-like-franz-kafka/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/psychological-motivation-is-the-desire-to-change-relations-between/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“For that half-hour in the hospital delivery room I was intimate with immensity, for that half-minute before birth I held her hands and for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/for-that-half-hour-in-the-hospital-delivery-room-i-was-intimate-with/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“The woman who undergoes this operation can sense the morphogenetic field at work in her face. She can feel the lines of force as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/the-woman-who-undergoes-this-operation-can-sense-the-morphogenetic/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“You might say as you tirelessly said of my stories, at least of the adjectives, that I should render the evidence, not render the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/you-might-say-as-you-tirelessly-said-of-my-stories-at-least-of-the/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do. But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/i-don-t-think-that-anyone-outside-paris-can-understand-love-and/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“I find no reason to think that aging is genetically determined. Genes do not provide information for the development of the individual beyond growth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/i-find-no-reason-to-think-that-aging-is-genetically-determined-genes/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/comparisons-deplete-the-actuality-of-the-things-compared-conveyance/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/each-part-of-a-story-each-word-if-possible-was-to-work-frontally-as/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of light. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/turning-and-climbing-the-double-helix-evolved-to-an-operation-which/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“The stories of young men searching for their fathers are the stories of young men who through their adventures father themselves by doing for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/the-stories-of-young-men-searching-for-their-fathers-are-the-stories/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or cooled by intellectual feeling. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/today-and-let-us-celebrate-this-fact-we-can-eat-the-light-of-our/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/evolution-propels-itself-by-an-inclination-toward-its-next-probable/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) > [“It's my side. I have found the pain. It is in my side, and I isolate it and define it, and arrange the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/it-s-my-side-i-have-found-the-pain-it-is-in-my-side-and-i-isolate-it/) [William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eat-light/william-s-wilson/#itemlist", "name": "2 Eat Light Quotes By William S. 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