Occupation: Chemist Birth: December 6, 1920 Death: August 31, 2002
Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first….
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centurie….
To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a m….
To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least, i….
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my ….
Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers..
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put researc….