"I shall assume that I am writing for readers who are full, or have in the past been full, of a proper spirit of ambition. A man's first duty, a young man's at any rate, is to be ambitious. Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms; there was something noble in the ambitions "
"Physiology provides particularly good examples, just because it is so obviously a 'beneficial' study. We must guard against a fallacy common among aplogist of science, the fallacy of supposing that the men whose work most benefits humanity are thinking much of that while they do it, that physiologis"