I love various sports including basketball tennis and billiards.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that though full of a thousand reasons for weariness the least thing such as playing billiards or hitting a ball is sufficient enough to amuse him.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
As long as men are free to ask what they must free to say what they think free to think what they will freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.