The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth..

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped..

Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible….

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international..

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of t….

Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to plan fo….

Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands a….

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search fo….

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to man….

[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human b….

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their….

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "ser….

Medicine also disregards national boundaries..