6 William Lipscomb Quotes for You to Enjoy

William Lipscomb

American Scientist

Born: Dec 9, 1919

Died: Apr 14, 2011

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For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be pushed by the need to produce practical applications. William Lipscomb

Good Me Creative Creative Process First Nine Must Pushed Hours First Of All Practical Process Produce Requires Applications Second Night Need Sleep

The problem is how do molecules react. Because if you want to transform a molecule into something useful or something you're interested in, it helps a lot to understand the structure. That means you can explore much more complicated systems, much more complicated reactions. William Lipscomb

You Problem Complicated Systems Something Structure More React Reactions Because Understand How Lot Want Transform Interested Much Means Explore Useful Molecule Molecules Helps

I learned from Linus Pauling it's not a disgrace in science to publish something that's wrong. What's bad is to publish something that's not very interesting. William Lipscomb

Science Publish Bad Something Wrong Learned Very Disgrace Interesting

A lot of people think the orchestra is playing and the conductor doesn't do very much, but the conductor's the person that gives shape to the music, gets the phrasing, and if he has really fine musicians in solo spots, the question is does he try to help them phrase, or does he let them go? William Lipscomb

Music Musicians People Try Think Solo Fine Phrase Gives Shape He Spots Does Go Question Lot Very Conductor Person Gets Orchestra Them Much Really Help Playing

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences. William Lipscomb

Think Intuitive Sciences Discovery Very Same Arts Processes Much

Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger? William Lipscomb

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