"I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Nature of Things."

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

Dorothy Hodgkin

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #School Quotes

“It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.”
“I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.”
“It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.”
“The sweetest happiness is one that we share .”
“The Ideal Consumer is someone who is constantly dissatisfies, constanly needs more and more products in order to feel better.”
“Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life”
“If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.”
“Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”

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