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Scientific education is by far the best training for all walks of life because it teaches us how to assess situations critically and react accordingly. It gives us an understanding based on reverence for life-enhancing technologies as well as for life itself.
- Harry Kroto
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The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.
- Harry Kroto
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We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.
- Harry Kroto
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Art and science are intrinsically the same except for one thing. The universe is in control of your science, whether it's right or wrong, and the public are in control of your art - if they're going to buy it, if you're going to make a living that way.
- Harry Kroto
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I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.
- Harry Kroto
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Never, ever, compromise on science.
- Harry Kroto
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At no point do I ever remember taking religion very seriously or even feeling that the biblical stories were any different from fairy stories. Certainly, none of it made any sense. By comparison, the world in which I lived, though I might not always understand it in all aspects, always made a lot of sense.
- Harry Kroto
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Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?
- Harry Kroto
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I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.
- Harry Kroto
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Imagine if we had stopped science in 1904. Yes, there would have been no nerve gas and no Bhopal, but there would also have been no penicillin. All science is a trade-off.
- Harry Kroto
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Saying that we should stop nanoscience is tantamount to saying we should stop science.
- Harry Kroto
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Scientific discoveries matter much more when they're communicated simply and well - if you can't explain your work to the man in the pub, what's the point?
- Harry Kroto
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Having chosen something worth doing, never give up, and try not to let anyone down.
- Harry Kroto
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If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.
- Harry Kroto
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Many think of the sciences as merely a fund of knowledge. Journalists never ask scientists anything other than what the applications are of scientific breakthroughs. Interestingly, I doubt they ever ask a musician, writer, or actor the same question. I wonder why.
- Harry Kroto
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