Robert Burns Woodward quotes
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“I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the rainbow of colors; the gleaming vessels of every size, shape and purpose.”
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“Synthesis..., perhaps in greater measure than activities in any other area of organic chemistry, provides a measure of the condition and power of science. For synthetic undertakings are seldom if ever undertaken by chance, nor will the most painstaking, or inspired, purely observational activities suffice. Synthesis must always be carried out by plan.”
-- Robert Burns Woodward
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Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
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Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.
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Source : Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22
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“I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.”
Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”
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“I'd rather see the world as a rainbow than endless shade of gray.”
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