“Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it - more correctly - the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.”
"It was about three o’clock at night when the final result of the calculation [demonstrating the sensibility of matrix mechanics] lay before me ... At first I was deeply shaken ... I was so excited that I could not think of sleep. So I left the house ... and awaited the sunrise on top of a rock. That was ‘the night of Helgoland.’"
- Werner Heisenberg
Achievement
"In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland."
- Werner Heisenberg
Achievement
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nature
"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."
- Joanna Gaines
Nature