Quotes About Bern

Auch hat sich deine Berner Polizei ja nun wirklich ungeschickt benommen, man erschießt nun einmal keinen Hund, wenn Bach gespielt wird.

Is this Christian charity as it's practiced in Bern?" He stood up, rapping his head against the low ceiling. "The Church has become a more … exclusive club since the founder's day, it's clear. No doubt the Devil is more hospitable.

was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me," he recalled. "If a person falls freely, he will not feel his own weight." That realization, which "startled" him, launched him on an arduous eight-year effort to generalize his special theory of relativity and "impelled me toward a theory of gravitation."16 Later, he would grandly call it "the happiest* thought in my life.