"A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty."

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Source : Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

Dorothy Hodgkin

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“I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness.”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1847). “Daily Scripture Readings: In Three Volumes”, p.34
“A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.”
“... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.”
“The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.”

Source : William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.71, Anchor
“Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.”
“Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.”
“Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.”

Source : Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”
“I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.”

Source : "Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed". Excerpts from instant messenger chats, www.wired.com. July 13, 2011.

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