"As for what motivated me, it is quite simple: I would hope that in the eyes of some people it might be sufficient in itself. It was curiosity - the only kind of curiosity in any case, that is work acting upon with a degree of obstinacy: not the curiosity that seems to assimilate what is proper for one to know, but that which enables one to get free of onself. After all, what would be the value of the passion for knowledge if it resulted only in a certain amount of knowledgeableness and not, in one way or another and to the extent possible, in the knower's straying afield of himself?" -M. F... full info