He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, of which they make no use in the specialised work of their profession, but by which their conversation profits.
Arrakasta distiratsua erdietsia duten beren karrera zientifikoarena ez ezik, bestelako kultura-mota zeharo ezberdin, literario, artistiko baten jabe ere badiren gizon horietariko bat zen, lanbide-eginkizunetarako ez, baina solaskidetzarako bai, lagungarri oso zaiena.