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Evolution is the best engineer. It's had billions of years to figure things out.

Time is the essence of everything. Without understanding time, we cannot understand the universe.

Our responsibility to the planet is not to leave it in a worse state than we found it.

It is not enough to just do science; we have to do something with it.

We have created a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.

The future of nuclear energy is bright, but it is not without its challenges.

The most important thing is to be curious and to ask questions. If you don't ask questions, you don't learn anything.

The discovery of artificial radioactivity opens up a vast field of research, not only in physics but also in chemistry and biology.

I have been much interested in the problem of the structure of atoms and molecules, and especially in the nature of the chemical bond.

I was born with a chemical formula in my head.

The sugar problem is one of the most fascinating and difficult in organic chemistry.

Science is the systematic pursuit of knowledge, and the most important tool for this pursuit is the experiment.

A chemical formula is a picture of the molecule, a representation of its structure.

The benzene ring was not discovered, it was dreamt.

The true and proper object of chemistry is to discover the laws of nature, and not to make discoveries for the sake of making them.

It is the greatest pleasure to discover something new, and to be able to demonstrate it to others.

I have been so happy as to hit upon a method of making air, which is not only respirable, but eminently salubrious.

The force of chemical affinity is not a simple force, but a resultant of several forces, among which the electrical force is the most important.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be an animal in a zoo. I am not a hero. I am not a genius. I am just a mathematician.

I changed what I could, and what I couldn't, I endured.