“Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.”

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.

I was brought up as a physicist.

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.

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.

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.