ernest (Ellen)

“Is then mathematics a collection of diamonds hidden in the depths of the universe and gradually unearthed, or is it a collection of synthetic stones manufactured by man, yet so brilliant nevertheless that they bedazzle those mathematicians who are already partially blinded by pride in their own creations?”
― Morris Kline

“I have broken the machine and touched the ghost of matter.”
― Ernest Rutherford

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in yourselves.”
― Nietzche

“I recognize the desolate country
of our birth without a beginning,
of our death without an end.”
― Mario Luzi, In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis and Other Poems.