"The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity."

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

Dorothy Hodgkin

#Molecules Quotes #Geometry Quotes #Complexity Quotes

“Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.”
“Those who have been made great have first suffered.”
“That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.”
“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”
“We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.”
“The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live lists.”
“Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.”

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