Christopher Kelk Ingold quotes
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“Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and nucleophilic (nucleus-seeking) are suggested... and the organic molecule, in the activation necessary for reaction, is therefore required to develop at the seat of attack either a high or low electron density as the case may be.”
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“You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.”
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“[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.”
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“Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits.”
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“[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.”
-- Christopher Kelk Ingold
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
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“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
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“Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.”
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“I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.”
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