Victor Grignard quotes
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“On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes of the magnificent public garden of the city of Nancy make the words reverberate; coupling, condensation, grignardization. Moreover, their clothes stay impregnated with strong and characteristic odours; we follow the initiates of Hermes by their scent. In such an environment, how is it possible not to be productive?”
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“The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.”
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“Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.”
-- Victor Grignard
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“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152
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“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”
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“Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!”
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“Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.”
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“The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.”
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