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  • To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least, in the field of fast reactions, the experiments do not take very long to perform.

  • I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

    The Observer, August 26, 1973.
  • Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

    Coffee   Science   Shirts  
    George Porter's Speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1967.
  • It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

    Happiness   Home   Wife  
  • Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.

  • Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.

    Fun   Science   Twenties  
  • To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

    Foundation   May   Matter  
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