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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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