There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren Sich weiß Rechenschaft zu geben, Bleib im Dunkeln unerfahren, Mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

Nowhere would anyone grant that science and poetry can be united. They forgot that science arose from poetry, and failed to see that a change of times might beneficently reunite the two as friends, at a higher level and to mutual advantage.