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"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."

- Henri Poincaré

Soviel zu all den Sprüchen, Wissenschaft würde den Sinn des Wunderbaren aus der Welt auslöschen. Und auch wenn ich das Gedicht hier schon mal gepostet habe, es bleibt einfach genial:

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;
First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
These, as successive generations bloom,
New powers acquire and larger limbs assume;
Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.

- Erasmus Darwin. The Temple of Nature. 1802.

Außerdem hat mich beides an diesen einen Cectic Comic erinnert.