--- title: "3 Melvin Calvin Quotes - Famous Chemist (Chemical evolution)" description: "Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-melvin-calvin-66582.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Melvin Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-melvin-calvin-66582.jpg) # Melvin Calvin (1911–1997) Chemist **3** quotes in **51** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Melvin Calvin was a chemist, best known for *Chemical evolution*. ## Quick Facts About Melvin Calvin Born April 8, 1911 Died January 8, 1997 Profession Chemist Notable works Chemical evolution ## About Melvin Calvin Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham. He was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants". He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley. ## Quotes by Melvin Calvin > [For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-calvin/for-each-of-us-who-appear-to-have-had-a-successful-experiment-there/) Melvin Calvin [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fc/melvin-calvin-81142_appear_for-each-of-us-who-appear-to-have-had-a_406485.jpg) > [To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-calvin/to-express-to-you-in-mere-words-our-personal-feelings-on-this/) Melvin Calvin [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e8/melvin-calvin-81142_describe_to-express-to-you-in-mere-words-our-pers_409016.jpg) > [If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-calvin/if-i-may-take-the-liberty-to-speak-for-science-at-least-today-his/) Melvin Calvin [Freedom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/freedom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd6/melvin-calvin-81142_freedom_if-i-may-take-the-liberty-to-speak-for-s_1441180.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvin-calvin/#itemlist", "name": "Melvin Calvin Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Melvin Calvin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-calvin/for-each-of-us-who-appear-to-have-had-a-successful-experiment-there/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fc/melvin-calvin-81142_appear_for-each-of-us-who-appear-to-have-had-a_406485.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fc/melvin-calvin-81142_appear_for-each-of-us-who-appear-to-have-had-a_406485.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fc/melvin-calvin-81142_appear_for-each-of-us-who-appear-to-have-had-a_406485.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments…” — Melvin Calvin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Melvin Calvin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvin-calvin/to-express-to-you-in-mere-words-our-personal-feelings-on-this/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e8/melvin-calvin-81142_describe_to-express-to-you-in-mere-words-our-pers_409016.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e8/melvin-calvin-81142_describe_to-express-to-you-in-mere-words-our-pers_409016.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e8/melvin-calvin-81142_describe_to-express-to-you-in-mere-words-our-pers_409016.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and…” — Melvin Calvin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. 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