“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
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I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
