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Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

From Gerhard Herzberg

If you start from nothing, it is very difficult to get anywhere.

From Gerhard Herzberg

The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.

From Gerhard Herzberg

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

From Gerhard Herzberg

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

From Gerhard Herzberg

Every newspaper feels it must have an astrology column, and even in the Carleton University bookstore this morning, I found books on astrology for sale.

From Gerhard Herzberg

Dealing with the health of people is more important than political considerations.

From Gerhard Herzberg

Many science people feel groups like WHO are there to do a job and not to be dealt with in a political way.

From Gerhard Herzberg

I was brought up as a physicist.

From Gerhard Herzberg

The citation for the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry reads, 'for contribution to the knowledge of electronic structures and geometry of molecules, especially free radicals,' and therefore implies that the Prize has been awarded for a long series of studies extending practically over my whole scientific life.

From Gerhard Herzberg

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