Henry Taube Quotes

#1. Why would a young man like you be interested in history?"
"So I can avoid repeating it."
"Then stay away from men who talk about the fatherland," he said. "That's my advice.

Ben Aaronovitch

#2. My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#3. In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

Peter Singer

#4. Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

Henry Taube

#5. Running so hard, her breath stippled with pain to go faster, hit the grass harder, move forward faster, like she could break through something in front of her, something no one else saw.

Megan Abbott

#6. Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.

Pope Francis

#7. This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

Henry Taube

#8. Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

Henry Taube

#9. 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.

Henry Taube

#10. The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.

Henry Taube

#11. My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

Henry Taube

#12. There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

Linda Hogan

#13. Brothers you can't get rid of. They get who you are, and what you like, and they don't care who you sleep with or what mistakes you make, because brothers aren't mixed up in that part of your life. They see you at your worst, and they don't care.

Becky Chambers