George Porter Quotes

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it.

Technological innovations [in public health] that come from basic science have to be transformed from discovery to delivery, and that gap is huge.

Fundamental science that may not achieve results must be supported at the state level.

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.

The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.

It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.