Famous quote by Irving Langmuir

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness"

"The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature"

"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes"

"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing"

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble"

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science"

"Every man's memory is his private literature"