Lifetime Quote by Gerhard Herzberg

The citation for the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry reads, 'for contribution to the knowledge of electronic structures and geometry of molecules, especially free…

— Gerhard Herzberg

I was brought up as a physicist.

— Gerhard Herzberg

The visible and near-ultraviolet emission spectrum of the CH radical has been known ever since spectra of an ordinary Bunsen burner have been taken.

— Gerhard Herzberg

The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.

— Gerhard Herzberg

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

— Gerhard Herzberg

Dealing with the health of people is more important than political considerations.

— Gerhard Herzberg

Every newspaper feels it must have an astrology column, and even in the Carleton University bookstore this morning, I found books on astrology for…

— Gerhard Herzberg

For polyatomic free radicals and ions, one is dependent both for the ground states and the excited states on the study of electronic spectra…

— Gerhard Herzberg

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

— Gerhard Herzberg

If you start from nothing, it is very difficult to get anywhere.

— Gerhard Herzberg

It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say 'thank you' for an honour like the Nobel Prize. It is the supreme honour…

— Gerhard Herzberg

Many science people feel groups like WHO are there to do a job and not to be dealt with in a political way.

— Gerhard Herzberg