disinterested quotes

No one ever complains if a great artist says that he was driven to create a masterpiece by a hunger for recognition and money.But a scientist? Well, he ismeant to be disinterested, pure, his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio.

-Self,Will
The QuantityTheory of Insanity and Five Supporting Propositions,'The QuantityTheory of Insanity'.

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