Planck:

Gentlemen, physics is approaching its completion.

Boltzmann:

It could also be a first rate funeral, my dear colleague Planck.

Lorentz:

I think we should avoid both exaggerated optimism and exaggerated pessimism, my dear Boltzmann,

Boltzmann:

Always trying to create harmony, our colleague Lorentz! What would we do without him!

Planck:

Then we would have no electrodynamics, one of the pillars of our physics alongside mechanics and thermodynamics.