Willard Libby Quotes


"We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes."
- Willard Libby
(Related: Time, Hope, Benefits, Help, Honor, Mankind, Will)

"Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts."
- Willard Libby
(Related: Science)

"The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom."
- Willard Libby
(Related: Knowledge, Energy, Future, Understanding, World)

"And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement."
- Willard Libby
(Related: Achievement, Goals, Prizes, World)

"True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person."
- Willard Libby
(Related: Work, Truth, Ideas, Reality)