German - Physicist | December 25, 1904 - March 3, 1999
There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.
Gerhard Herzberg
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Dealing with the health of people is more important than political considerations.
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Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.
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If you start from nothing, it is very difficult to get anywhere.
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The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.
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Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.
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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.
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Many science people feel groups like WHO are there to do a job and not to be dealt with in a political way.
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I was brought up as a physicist.
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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.
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The CH radical is a very reactive radical which, under most conditions, has a very short lifetime.
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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.
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