We know that his play is always fair, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature. U. S. biochemist.
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
U. S. biochemist. Frank Plumpton Ramsay. One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. French poet and philosopher. To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.