Robert S. Mulliken famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice.
-- Robert S. Mulliken

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I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of chemists will go to the computing machine instead of the laboratory for increasingly many facets of chemical information, is already at hand. There is only one obstacle, namely that someone must pay for the computing time.
-- Robert S. Mulliken

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I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.
-- Robert S. Mulliken

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If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
The experience youâ€™ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads thereâ€™d have been no Disneyland; without high functioning legal systems and a well regulated business environment there would have been no copyright protection for Mickey Mouse.
It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.
If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. "I might lose my grandmother's company." Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. "You won't lose me.
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

Robert S. Mulliken famous quotes

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