Goethe, one of Germany's most famous bachelors, and the #1 top 500 genius, whose greatest work as a treatise on the physico-chemical nature of relationships in respect to social-religious ideas about what is right and wrong in respect to the the dynamics of the marriage bond, remained a bachelor for the first 56-years of his existence, marrying Christiane Vulpius, only when war came to Germany. |
“Adam Smith had a lot in common with Isaac Newton. Both were lifelong bachelors. Both became professors at the university they had attended. Both were born after their fathers had dies. And both became fathers themselves of a new scientific discipline. Newton built the foundation of physics; Smith authored the bible of economics.”
“Geniuses are often misanthropist; they enjoy their lonesomeness because their minds are their best entertainment. Geniuses are also inclined to misogyny. If a background check is run on all of the world’s geniuses, a substantial percentage of them had relationship problems with women and a high percentage of [geniuses] never married.”
“There is nothing to say against that,” said the Count. “In a new character a man may readily venture on a second trial; and when we know the world we see clearly that it is only this positive eternal duration of marriage in a world where everything is in motion, which has anything unbecoming about it. A certain friend of mine, whose humor displays itself principally in suggestions for new laws, maintained that every marriage should be concluded only for five years. Five, he said, was a sacred number—pretty and uneven. Such a period would be long enough for people to learn one another’s character, bring a child or two into the world, quarrel, separate, and what was best, get reconciled again. He would often exclaim, ‘How happily the first part of the time would pass away!’ Two or three years, at least, would be perfect bliss. On one side or other there would not fail to be a wish to have the relation continue longer, and the amiability would increase the nearer they got to the parting time. The indifferent, even the dissatisfied party, would be softened and gained over by such behavior; they would forget, as in pleasant company the hours pass always unobserved, how the time went by, and they would be delightfully surprised when, after the term had run out, they first observed that they had unknowingly prolonged it.”
“If Goethe could give that women his name, I certainly could give her a cup of tea.”
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“Look what happens to [geniuses] when they get married.”— Niels Bohr (1937), comment to George Gamow, in reference to Paul Dirac’s 1937
“At what time,” he asked, glancing up, “does the dissipation of energy begin?”
“It’s as though I have a bigger sense of ‘chemical potential’ to fulfill (or realize). Women always just always seem to be getting in the way. Some even tell me so, namely: that they feel that way.”— Libb Thims (2016), "personal note", practice answer rehearsal, to long-time overly common reoccurring query “so why aren’t you married?”, after showing the new landlord my new exercise station (Ѻ), in anticipation of the question, who just had his second baby over the past weekend; jotted herein as note per realization that the term “chemical potential” seemed to arise naturally in the mind, as workable cogent synonym to the seemingly teleological and or atomic purview objectionable term “purpose” (e.g. it is difficult to sentence that it is hydrogen’s ‘purpose’ to bond with oxygen to form water), seemingly thereby to fill in as workable “purpose terminology upgrade” employable, in light of Vicente Talanquer's discernible chemical teleology terminology objections, in passing conversations; possibly even preferable than to “thermodynamic potential”, as suggested by Bruce Lindsay (1983), which has a less-recognizable immediate meaning, in everyday passing colloquial conversations, 11:45 AM CST Feb 26
“Another form of sagacity and self-defense consists in ‘reacting’ as seldom as possible and withdrawing from situations and relationships in which one would be condemned as it were to suspend one’s ‘freedom’, one’s initiative, and become a mere reagent.”— Friedrich Nietzsche (1888), Ecce Homo (pg. 27); note: in 1882, the year when The Gay Science was published, he proposed to Lou Salome (Ѻ) and was rejected, which conflicts, in some respect, with the above rule