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…

- George Porter

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…

- George Porter

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…

- George Porter

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…

- George Porter

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…

- George Porter

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 …

- George Porter

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

- George Porter