George Porter quotes
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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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- George PorterSource : The Observer, August 26, 1973.
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“Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.”
-- George PorterSource : George Porter's Speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1967.
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- George Porter
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Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Concept of Freedom"), 1990.
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“Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.”
Source : Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
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“I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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