Dorothy Hodgkin Quotes

Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the first and most important thing is to determine its detailed molecular structure.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

You don't buy chemistry, nor do you manufacture it, it is what it is.

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.

Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

You have to look at how chemistry develops.

Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering the rules that govern the structures, properties and transformations of molecular species.

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

Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

It's all about chemistry. Talent alone won't get it done.