Howsoever this soap-bubble will rejoice your eyes by its play, it inevitably will burst and you will have nothing except shame. School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourselves to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts. Perfect as is the wing of a bird, it never could raise the bird up without resting on air.
Facts are the air of a scientist.
Without them you never can fly. But learning, experimenting, observing, try not to stay on the surface of the facts. Do not become the archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them. Secondly, modesty Never think that you already know all.