[hprotagonist]

Ramon y Cajal's "advice to a young investigator" is still quite good as well: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/advice-young-investigator

[jhbadger]

Although he suggests that the best thing a female scientist can do is be a good helper to her husband! He was a man of his times, to be sure.

[vixen99]

Yes he was. 'Man of his times' is a good phrase. I wonder how the behaviour of moralizers of today who castigate those in the past, often with little or no appreciation of the mores of their period, will be viewed in a couple of hundred years time.