Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSomeday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe