Scientific Life Quotes

My wife and I have four children, and none of them are in lab science, so clearly I returned home at night and presented a fairly unattractive example of a scientific life.

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

The citation for the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry reads, 'for contribution to the knowledge of electronic structures and geometry of molecules, especially free radicals,' and therefore implies that the Prize has been awarded for a long series of studies extending practically over my whole scientific life.

An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.

As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.