All quotes are extracts from epistolary communications, reported with agreement of their authors

"I feel that experimental thermodynamics is an essential core discipline that we cannot do without. I do not believe that theory and simulation can stand on its own without the availability of high quality experimental data. "

"I feel that experimental thermodynamics is an essential core discipline that we cannot do without. I do not believe that theory and simulation can stand on its own without the availability of high quality experimental data. "

"I feel that experimental thermodynamics is an essential core discipline that we cannot do without. I do not believe that theory and simulation can stand on its own without the availability of high quality experimental data. "

"I feel that experimental thermodynamics is an essential core discipline that we cannot do without. I do not believe that theory and simulation can stand on its own without the availability of high quality experimental data. "

Kenneth N. Marsh, University of Canterburry, New Zealand

Alan Mather, University of Alberta, Canada

Athanasios Panagiotopoulos, Princeton University, USA

John M. Prausnitz, University of California, Berkeley, USA

"As we learned at one AIChE Meeting, the billions of euro to be invested all over the world in this partial solution to the energy situation must await valid experimental information for the reactions and separations involved. Without such verification, major errors are likely to be made. Without data, the computational results may only be "photons from a screen" and have little to do with reality. "

John O'Connell, University of Virginia, USA