• Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

    Santiago Ramon y Cajal: Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.
    Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.51, MIT Press