The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world — mental and material — in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.


Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes in 1922, Nobel banquet speech for award received in 1922, Nobel Foundation. Stockholm, Sweden. 1923


The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world — mental and material — in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair:...

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world — mental and material — in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair:...

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world — mental and material — in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair:...

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world — mental and material — in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair:...