‘Too many of our social, political or even familial behaviour has remained sadistic, misleading or intellectually primitive. Our desires, our proclivity for slaughter seems to have no limits. The stench of money deteriorates our lives. But when we make a Shakespeare-sonnet, when we compose a Mess in B Minor or struggle for centuries with Goldbachs theorem or the three-body problem, we transcend ourselves. Yes, in those cases there is ‘no miracle greater than man’.

[Tritones]