The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I have written a good number of drafts and small reflections. They are not waiting for the last touch but for the sunlight to wake them up.

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.... Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.