"A chemist who does not know mathematics is……" — Irving Langmuir
"A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped."
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Irving Langmuir
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13 Quotes by Irving Langmuir
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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…
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[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as…
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Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to…
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[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack…
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of…
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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…
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit…
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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…
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.
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