The Allure of Scientific Discovery

My ardour was indeed the astonishment of the students; and my proficiency, that of the masters.

Professor Krempe often asked me, with a sly smile, how Cornelius Agrippa went on?

whilst M. Waldman expressed the most heart-felt exultation in my progress.

Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged,

heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries, which I hoped to make.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing

more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.