I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are few occupa…

- Lawrence Joseph Henderson

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

- Lawrence Joseph Henderson

The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from the rest…

- Lawrence Joseph Henderson

But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, an…

- Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Historically the most striking result of Kant's labors was the rapid separation of the thinkers of his own nation and, though less completely, of the…

- Lawrence Joseph Henderson

A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in…

- Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

- Lawrence Joseph Henderson