Henry Taube Quotes

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

  Henry Taube

  Exercise, Science, Intellectual

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

  Henry Taube

  Science, Benefits, Term

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• Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. 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

  Moving, Science, Numbers

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• Y a medida que seguimos mejorando nuestra comprensión de la ciencia básica de la que dependen cada vez más las aplicaciones, los beneficios materiales de este y otros tipos están asegurados para el futuro.

  Henry Taube

  Science, Understanding, Benefits

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• Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill.

  Henry Taube

  Exercise, Science, Intellectual

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• 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

  Real, Discovery, Appreciate

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• 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

  Children, Science, Years

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• 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

  Chicago, Aspect, Interest

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