“We must know; we shall know.” David Hilbert
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.” Francis Bacon
“Circumstances have dumped into my life the excesses of a technological culture: differential equations, a fur hat.” Smilla Jasperson, from Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Høeg
“Despite all that, she was natural. In the way wild animals share qualities with Bach's music: a naturalness where one doesn't dream of changing a single note because it simply cannot be any other way.”
Kasper Krone, from The Quiet Girl, by Peter Høeg