Willis R. Whitney Quotes

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The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Willis R. Whitney

Chemistry was the plaything of magicians, monks and pure-science teachers centuries before chemical engineering became a comprehensible term.

Willis R. Whitney

We humans want better minds, broader horizons, and greater understanding. Scientists everywhere are at work in their respective fields searching for new truths to improve the process by which our minds, our horizons, our powers, and our outlooks grow.

Willis R. Whitney

For the engineer "safety first" is a good slogan, but "safety last" is better for the man of research.

Willis R. Whitney

Scientists know that research merely discloses parts of the infinite unknown. Paradoxically, the enticing, helpful "unknown" increases as men continue to subtract from it. Progress in every line of experimental science follows the same law. The apparently narrow path gradually expands into unlimited, unexplored territory.

Willis R. Whitney