Be Less Curious About People And More

I Have No Dress Except The One I Wear Every Day. If You Are Going To Be Kind Enough To Give Me One, Please Let It Be Practical And Dark So That I Can Put It On Afterwards To Go To The Laboratory.

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.

I Was Taught That The Way Of Progress Was Neither Swift Nor Easy.

All My Life Through, The New Sights Of Nature Made Me Rejoice Like A Child.

Sometimes My Courage Fails Me And I Think I Ought To Stop Working, Live In The Country And Devote Myself To Gardening. But I Am Held By A Thousand Bonds, And I Don't Know When I Shall Be Able To Arrange Things Otherwise. Nor Do I Know Whether, Even By Writing Scientific Books, I Could Live Without The Laboratory.