Be less curious about people 

and more curious about ideas.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.

Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organised society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. 

A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: 

he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.