'Are future scientists ... to be found by chance among the most serious students who apply themselves, the winners of prizes and the winners of competitions? At

'Are future scientists ... to be found by chance among the most serious students who apply themselves, the winners of prizes and the winners of competitions? At times, yes, but not always. ... A good deal more worthy of preference by the clear-sighted teacher will be those students who are somewhat headstrong, con- temptuous of first place, insensible to the inducements of vanity, and who being endowed with an abundance of restless imagination spend their energy in the pursuit of literature, art, philosophy, and all the recreations of mind and body. To him who observes them from afar. it appears as though they are scattering and dissipating their energies, while in reality they are channeling and strengthening them.' ( Santiago Ramon y Cajal)