Author: Harry Kroto

Quotes

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

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

Never, ever, compromise on science.

Never, ever, compromise on science.

- Harry Kroto

Saying that we should stop nanoscience is tantamount to saying we should stop science.

Saying that we should stop nanoscience is tantamount to saying we should stop science.

- 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

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

Similar Authors: