Christopher Kelk Ingold famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and nucleophilic (nucleus-seeking) are suggested... and the organic molecule, in the activation necessary for reaction, is therefore required to develop at the seat of attack either a high or low electron density as the case may be.
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You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.
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[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.
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Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits.
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[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.
-- Christopher Kelk Ingold
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
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Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.
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Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
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Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.
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