"In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc."

-- Otto Wallach

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“The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing in Iran, so the government is actually more open about it than they are about some of the other ills in society. They just don't want to talk about things that might relate to a Western lifestyle even though they know that Iranians indulge. Because there is no real public life left in Iran - people go and have dinner and then everything retreats behind these Persian walls.”
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
“Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.”
“If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance man with interests and skills in many different areas. He was smart and lots of things interested him and he brought the same general conceptual methodology to solve them. The subject matter was not so important as the solution ideas.”
“The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.”
“What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.”

Source : Georg Baselitz, Norman Rosenthal (2007). “Baselitz”, Royal Academy of Art
“Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?”
“I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.”

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