"I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them."

--

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

Dorothy Hodgkin

#Rays Quotes #Analysis Quotes #Crystals Quotes

“What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.
“I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.”
“In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.”

Source : "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 1970.
“I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.”
“For chemistry is no science form'd Ã priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from a number of experiments casually made, without any expectation of what follow'd; and was only reduced into an art or system, by collecting and comparing the effects of such unpremeditated experiments, and observing the uniform tendency thereof. So far, then, as a number of experimenters agree to establish any undoubted truth; so far they may be consider'd as constituting the theory of chemistry.”
“You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.”
“I fight because it allows me to face my fears head on, and conquer those fears one by one.”
“When I think about political races, and certain consultants, the word that comes to mind is dirty. Dirty, dirty, DIRTY!”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

You may also like:

Ada Lovelace
Countess of Lovelace
Gertrude B. Elion
Innovator
Irene Joliot-Curie
Scientist
John Desmond Bernal
Physicist
Lise Meitner
Physicist
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Physicist
Marie Curie
Physicist
Max Perutz
Scientist
Rosalind Franklin
Scientist