On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.
You know what? The obvious is obvious for a reason.
Success is a refined study of the obvious
Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now to have been right all along-and he deserves great credit for having been so reluctant to become involved when the energy-rich chemical intermediates began to be so fashionable. This reminds me of the aphorism: 'The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer'.
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.
