Science needs objectivity but it demands passion - a scientific life is hard, painstaking and long, that without something driving the scientist the effort is t

Science needs objectivity but it demands passion - a scientific life is hard, painstaking and long, that without something driving the scientist the effort is too much. Yes money helps, but most could make more elsewhere. This balance takes us to odd places. Announcing super conductors that aren't quite there, seeing one author through words glanced sideways, but also studying worms in English gardens or photographic plates of stars for months on end, the same passions and the same failings lead us to success or failure