This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
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.… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
![“[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 beings can do to themselves in the way of being led astray by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions. These are examples of…” quote by Irving Langmuir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/629/irving-langmuir-34598_attention_there-are-cases-where-there-is-no-dishon_1612300.jpg)
