Henry Taube Quotes

Canadian - Scientist | November 30, 1915 - November 16, 2005

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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