Year Quotes (2)
Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it.
Comment to Delambre on Lavoisier's execution, 8 May 1794. Quoted in D. McKie, Antoine Lavoisier: Scientist, Economist, Social Reformer (1962), 309.
What does one have to do to be called a scientist? I decided that anyone who spent on science more than 10% of his waking, thinking time for a period of more than a year would be called a scientist, at least for that year.
Quoted in 'The Way it Was', Annual Review of Physical Chemistry (1982), 33, 1-2.
