Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.