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• A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.
• Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own…
• [In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you…
• Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but…
• [There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding…
• To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples…
• Medicine also disregards national boundaries.
• And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
• Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of…
• History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
• Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
• The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

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