Robert Boyle Quotes

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

By coordinating with international partners on scientific issues, we strengthen the U.S. scientific enterprise and promote the free exchange of ideas in other nations.

Science is not finished until it is communicated.

I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction crosses my mind that these things hang together under one law & that the more haste we make onwards each in his own path the sooner we shall arrive, and meet each other, at that state of knowledge of natural causes from which all varieties of effects may be understood & enjoyed.

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

There's a very famous Miyamoto Musashi quote. "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." The idea is once you understand what excellence is all about, whether it's in painting, or carpentry or martial arts, that you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline. I think that all the different things that I do enhance all the other things that I do.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

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.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.

anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution.