Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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