The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.
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 GoetheWhen you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheScience arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe