Irving Langmuir's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Scientist
Nation: American
Biography of Irving Langmuir
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Tags: Desire, Science, TruthScience, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
Tags: Character, Science, TruthAnd literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
Tags: Frequently, Heights, LiteratureMedicine also disregards national boundaries.
Tags: Boundaries, Medicine, NationalThis coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.
Tags: Peace, Science, TogetherHappy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
Tags: Happy, Indeed, MankindHistory proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
Tags: History, Human, ScienceTo my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
Tags: Home, Mind, Science