In Science We Must Be Interested In

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.

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.

Each Of Us Must Work For His Own Improvement, And At The Same Time Share A General Responsibility For All Humanity.

First Principle: Never To Let One's Self Be Beaten Down By Persons Or By Events.

I Have No Dress Except The One I Wear Every Day. If You Are Going To Be Kind Enough To Give Me One, Please Let It Be Practical And Dark So That I Can Put It On Afterwards To Go To The Laboratory.