"I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close."

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

Dorothy Hodgkin

#Running Quotes #July Quotes #Rays Quotes

“When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who would hammer out the subtlest insight into Dostoevsky if he could weld an inch of the Karamazovs, or argue the poise of Lawrence if he could shape the free gust of life in The Rainbow?”
“You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.”
“It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.”
“We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.”

Source : Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.273, Simon and Schuster
“My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.”
“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
“In real life, I am alarmingly boring.”
“All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.”

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