A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
“Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.”
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.
“You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?”
Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
If I’m honest, I have to tell you I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all.