Molecular Structures Quotes

I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That's the ultimate goal.

Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

I am the mild-mannered organic chemistry teacher at the University of Oklahoma.

Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.

Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new structures.

I think chemists always think they know more than they know, because nature has a lot of possible pathways it can try.

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting and sequencing.

My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?

Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

In the lab, we're discovering that nature can do chemistry we never dreamed was possible.

Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time.

To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.

In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.