“I was brought up as a physicist.”

Many science people feel groups like WHO are there to do a job and not to be dealt with in a political way.

If you start from nothing, it is very difficult to get anywhere.

For polyatomic free radicals and ions, one is dependent both for the ground states and the excited states on the study of electronic spectra to obtain the shapes and the geometrical parameters.

It is the supreme honour that a scientist can receive. Some of the giants in physics and chemistry have received this prize.

The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

The visible and near-ultraviolet emission spectrum of the CH radical has been known ever since spectra of an ordinary Bunsen burner have been taken.

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

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.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

The CH radical is a very reactive radical which, under most conditions, has a very short lifetime.

Dealing with the health of people is more important than political considerations.

It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say ‘thank you’ for an honour like the Nobel Prize.

Every newspaper feels it must have an astrology column, and even in the Carleton University bookstore this morning, I found books on astrology for sale.

Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, ‘I almost didn’t recognize you without a hat on’, I could have bought the Cowboys myself.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

It’s much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire – I thought up half of what I brought to the show.

We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at scary, cross-eyed rural people, and brought our food and family inside because they were the safest places to be.

It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg.