Excerpt from Opportunities in Chemistry
All the good chemists that I have ever known have been full of curiosity. I was about to say, as full of curiosity as any old gossip that ever drank tea, but the smile is not a happy one, for the chemist is after knowledge, while the gossip wants to impart rumors. As curious, let us say, as the child that wants to know what makes the wheels go round. That is the real quality. And the chemist must be imaginative: he must like to think of things he cannot see. Unless a man can have a good time by himself, just wondering, and thinking about things, and guessing out, as best he can, how they happen, he can have no joy in chemistry.
There's no use in studying chemistry unless one has been able to keep his great talent of curiosity which so many of us lose when we go to school.
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