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Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

But one always returns to one's first loves. [Fr., Mais on revient toujours A ses premieres amours.]

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

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

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they already have done a good pruning job.

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.

How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to An organic trace mineral deficiency

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.

Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.

On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

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