Complexity Quote by Dorothy Hodgkin

Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the first and…

— Richard J. Roberts

“[The] structural theory is of extreme simplicity. It assumes that the molecule is held together by links between one atom and the next: that…

— Nevil Vincent Sidgwick

I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical…

— Donald Cram

We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other…

— Linus Pauling

“For an enzyme to be functional, it must fold into a precise three-dimensional shape. How such a complex folding can take place remains a…

— T. Colin Campbell

“We are at the dawn of a new era, the era of 'molecular biology' as I like to call it, and there is an…

— William Astbury

“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able…

— Wilhelm Korner

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

“This chapter reveals and elaborates upon the exquisite beauty of protein structure.”

— Reginald H. Garrett

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to…

— Francis Crick

It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as…

— Christian B. Anfinsen

...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?

— Saul Bellow