Author: Harry Kroto

Quotes

The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.

The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.

- Harry Kroto

We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.

We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.

- Harry Kroto

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

- Harry Kroto

Scientific discoveries matter much more when they're communicated simply and well - if you can't explain your work to the man in the pub, what's the point?

Scientific discoveries matter much more when they're communicated simply and well - if you can't explain your work to the man in the pub, what's the point?

- Harry Kroto

Imagine if we had stopped science in 1904. Yes, there would have been no nerve gas and no Bhopal, but there would also have been no penicillin. All science is a trade-off.

Imagine if we had stopped science in 1904. Yes, there would have been no nerve gas and no Bhopal, but there would also have been no penicillin. All science is a trade-off.

- Harry Kroto

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

- Harry Kroto

Never, ever, compromise on science.

Never, ever, compromise on science.

- Harry Kroto

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