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What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?
All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.
No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.
One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.
The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.
American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.
My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.
In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.
During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.
Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.
During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.
I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.
It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.