1.
The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
Willard Libby
2.
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
Willard Libby
3.
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.
Willard Libby
4.
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
Willard Libby
5.
We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
Willard Libby
6.
Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.
Willard Libby
7.
You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.
Willard Libby