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If I devoted myself to science, guided not only by purely external motives, such as the making of money or the satisfaction of my own ambition, and not because (at least, not for this reason alone) I considered it a kind of sport, an exercise of the mind, which gives me pleasure, then a question must represent me as a supporter of the ardent interest of science: what end must and must the science to which I have devoted myself set before me? How true are his results today? What is so significant in them and what depends on its accidental development?

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If I devoted myself to science, guided not only by purely external motives, such as the making of money or the satisfaction of my own ambition, and not because (at least, not for this reason alone) I considered it a kind of sport, an exercise of the mind, which gives me pleasure, then a question must represent me as a supporter of the ardent interest of science: what end must and must the science to which I have devoted myself set before me? How true are his results today? What is so significant in them and what depends on its accidental development?

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Romanian

"Dacă m-am dedicat științei, ghidându-mă nu numai după motive pur externe, cum ar fi câștigarea banilor sau satisfacerea propriei ambiții, și nu pentru că (cel puțin, nu numai din acest motiv) aș considera-o un fel de sport, o gimnastică a minții, care îmi oferă plăcere, atunci o întrebare trebuie să mă reprezinte ca susținător al interesului arzător al științei: ce scop trebuie și oare să-mi așeze dinainte știința căreia m-am devotat? Cât sunt de adevărate rezultatele sale de azi? Ce este în ele atât de semnificativ și ce depinde de dezvoltarea ei întâmplătoare?"

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