"Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?"

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

Dorothy Hodgkin

#Molecules Quotes #Complicated Quotes #Experiments Quotes

“There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.”
“Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long.”
“I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.”

Source : FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Sep 07, 2014
“Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.”
“Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.”
“To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.”
“Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!”
“A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation.”

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