"Many of the things that have happened in……" — Irving Langmuir
"Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to plan for in a sense. I do not think Dr. Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan."
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Irving Langmuir
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13 Quotes by Irving Langmuir
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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…
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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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[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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