Kinetics Quotes

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.

I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.

No lens is quick enough to track the movement of the human body. The molecules are always moving.

Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.

The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part.

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

Every chemical reaction has a transition state.