That image would certainly have appealed to Albert Einstein, whose lifelong effort to find the few laws that would explain all physical phenomena ran into immense difficulties as the revolutionary light of his theory of relativity discerned a widening darkness. (discovermagazine.com)
An audio slideshow chronicles Norman Borlaugs lifelong efforts to defeat a wheat pathogen called stem rust (also see News Focus). (science.sciencemag.org)
A deliberate, lifelong effort to find people to tell him why he might be wrong is one of the keys to Mr. Buffett's success. (jasonzweig.com)