Langmuir Quotes

#1. Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.

Saul Dushman

#2. A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.

Irving Langmuir

#3. I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

John Prescott

#4. Besides," he says, "every hero I know is soaked in blood.

Beth Revis

#5. The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. the good finish best

Bemy Wells

#7. Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

Irving Langmuir

#8. I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.

Nicholas Sparks

#9. And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

Irving Langmuir

#10. To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

Irving Langmuir

#11. History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

Irving Langmuir

#12. The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.

Marilyn Manson

#13. Some theologians will tell you that God's love is unconditional but...Forget the "but". God has no "buts and no ifs". God loves you unconditionally; his love is eternal and has no limits.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#14. I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.'

Maria De Medeiros

#15. I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it.

Tim Cahill

#16. Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

Irving Langmuir

#17. Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.

Albert Einstein

#18. Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity.

Irving Langmuir

#19. The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Irving Langmuir

#20. Nine years ago I was alive. Nine years ago Jessica Anne Porter was fifteen years old.

Joan Frances Turner

#21. Life has taught me that to be Happy one must attain Peace. For without Peace, there can be no Happiness.

R.v.m.

#22. This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

Irving Langmuir