Intellectual Exercise Quotes by Henry Taube

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds…

— Henry Taube

Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as…

— Henry Taube

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

— Henry Taube

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

— Henry Taube

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

— Henry Taube

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

— Henry Taube

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist…

— Henry Taube

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

— Henry Taube