Dr. Ulrike Bittmann

My mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years…Now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry…I have also almost lost any taste for pictures or music…My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts…

If I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week…The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.”

Charles Darwin (1809-1882), english naturalist, author of Origin of Species