What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so รผbersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe