Henry Taube Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. 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.