19 Quotes by George Porter

When I get away from home for too long I start to get crazy, so I need to get back, ... We have to get back just to get our feet in the mud, in that crawfish juice, or something.

We feel she will be a real good fit for us here,

Science and Literature are splendid, and it is really to science and literature themselves that this distinguished company pays its homage.

I wanted to stay, but my granddaughter convinced me Sunday morning that we should leave, ... She was sitting in the gazebo and she said, 'Grandpa, when are we going to leave?' She doesn't usually scare that easy.

I'm overwhelmed. A lot of people run and hide, but everyone has come to help us.

To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least, in the field of fast reactions, the experiments do not take very long to perform.

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.