Quotes by Henry Taube

• Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
• The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical.
• My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
• This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.
• And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.