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A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.
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Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own…
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[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you…
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Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but…
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[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding…
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples…
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Medicine also disregards national boundaries.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of…
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its…
— H. L. Mencken
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Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but…
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The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was…
— Denton Cooley
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing…
— Alexander Pope
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Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by…
— Louisa May Alcott
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The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The…
— Norman Mailer
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Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow,…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. "His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat.
— Bryan Davis
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