What is broken can sometimes hold more meaning than what is whole.
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
"She was free in her wildness, she was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city."