Henry Taube famous quotes

Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
-- Henry Taube

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Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.
-- Henry Taube

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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill.
-- Henry Taube

#Exercise #Intellectual #Thrill

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.
-- Henry Taube

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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
-- Henry Taube

#Exercise #Intellectual #Culture

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
-- Henry Taube

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This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.
-- Henry Taube

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And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
-- Henry Taube

#Science #Understanding #Benefits

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.

It didn't mean forever but for right now I wanted Rush to be my first. He wouldn't be my last. A stop I might never forget or get over. That was what scared me the most. Not being able to move on.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.