Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.
John Charles PolanyiIn education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
John Charles PolanyiI knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow a byway, rather than the highway. It is a procedure I have subsequently recommended to beginning scientists in this country, where research strategy is best modelled on that used by Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham.
John Charles Polanyi