You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

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• Irving Langmuir:

  And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

• Irving Langmuir:

  Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also

• Irving Langmuir:

  History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human nee

• Irving Langmuir:

  Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

• Irving Langmuir:

  Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices

• Irving Langmuir:

  The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

• Irving Langmuir:

  This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

• Irving Langmuir:

  To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of

• Irving Layton:

  In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

• Irving Layton:

  When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.