Any good comedy has its basis in tragedy. It’s a hair’s breadth removed — not the tragedy of death, but the abiding one of life.
“Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science man will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage, God will come down to earth with His big ring of keys and will say to humanity, ‘Gentlemen, it is closing time.’”
Marcellin Berthelot | 1860