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In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write…

— Anonymous

“So while Pauling struggled with his model, Watson and Crick turned theirs inside out, so the negative phosphorus ions wouldn’t touch. This gave them…

— Sam Kean

[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and…

— Linus Pauling

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them…

— William Henry Bragg

The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was…

— Anonymous

Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have.…

— Lucretius

“Paul closed his eyes and turned his face to the sun. In spite of everything, it was hard not to take solace from the…

— Greg Egan

“The prime number 137 had continuously occupied Pauli's mind. It is an approximate value for a constant appearing in the fine structure theory of…

— K. V. Laurikainen

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

— Terry Eagleton

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit…

— Jack Vance

For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ…

— Louis de Broglie