How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?

Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!

How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

The layman always means, when he says "reality" that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.

The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.