Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTrue art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheInsofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe