What It Takes to Produce Outstanding Scientific Work
“[This advice] may prove comforting and useful to a large number of modest individuals with a retiring nature who, despite yearning for reputation, have not yet reaped the desired harvest, due either to a certain lack of determination or to misdirected efforts. This advice is aimed more at the spirit than the intellect because I am convinced, and Payot wisely agrees, that the former is as amenable to education as the latter. Furthermore, I believe that all outstanding work, in art as well as in science results from immense zeal applied to a great idea.” (p. 7)