“As we have already noted, the joyful emotion associated with the act of discovery is so great that it is easy to understand the sublime madness of Archimedes. Historians tell us that he was so beside himself after solving a profound problem that he burst forth almost naked from his house exclaiming the famous Eureka, [...]
“Even those with mediocre talent can produce notable work in the various sciences, so long as they do not try to embrace all of them at once. instead, they should concentrate attention on one subject after another (that is, in different periods of time), although later work will undermine earlier attainments in the other spheres. [...]
“To pursue fully the topic of our research with the limited facilities that we have, let us forget unrelated pursuits and the parasitic ideas connected with the futile trifles of everyday life. Using strength and perseverance, concentrate deeply only on information pertinent to the question at hand. During the gestation period of our work, sentence [...]