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Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
 George Porter

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
 George Porter
Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
 George Porter
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
 George Porter