One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. was a Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City.
