The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe