Scientist Believe In Things, Not In Person

It Is My Earnest Desire That Some Of You Should Carry On This Scientific Work And Keep For Your Ambition The Determination To Make A Permanent Contribution To Science.

Certein Bodies... Become Luminous When Heated. Their Luminosity Disappears After Some Time, But The Capacity Of Becoming Luminous Afresh Through Heat Is Restored To Them By The Action Of A Spark, And Also By The Action Of Radium.

Scientist Believe In Things, Not In Person

Humanity Needs Practical Men, Who Get The Most Out Of Their Work, And, Without Forgetting The General Good, Safeguard Their Own Interests. But Humanity Also Needs Dreamers, For Whom The Disinterested Development Of An Enterprise Is So Captivating That It Becomes Impossible For Them To Devote Their Care To Their Own Material Profit.

This Means That We Have Here An Entirely Separate Kind Of Chemistry For Which The Current Tool We Use Is The Electrometer, Not The Balance, And Which We Might Well Call The Chemistry Of The Imponderable.