Robert S. Mulliken quotes
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“While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice.”
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“I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of chemists will go to the computing machine instead of the laboratory for increasingly many facets of chemical information, is already at hand. There is only one obstacle, namely that someone must pay for the computing time.”
-- Robert S. MullikenSource : Robert S. Mulliken, Donald A. Ramsay (1975). “Selected Papers of Robert S. Mulliken”, p.42, University of Chicago Press
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“I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.”
-- Robert S. MullikenSource : Robert S. Mulliken (2012). “Life of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory”, p.24, Springer Science & Business Media
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“It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.”
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“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
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“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.
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