C’était un de ces hommes qui, en dehors d’une carrière scientifique où ils ont d’ailleurs brillamment réussi, possèdent une culture toute différente, littéraire, artistique, que leur spécialisation professionnelle n’utilise pas et dont profite leur conversation. →
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.