Field Quote by Gregory Petsko

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

— Robert Huber

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

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

— Sigmund Freud

The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power…

— William Lawrence Bragg

X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation…

— Anonymous

I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound that could…

— Stefan Hell

Gunner loves touching crystals. If I take him into our crystal room, his eyes will go straight for the crystals on the shelves -…

— Spencer Pratt

Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.

— Ahmed H. Zewail

We can track and see the production of single molecules, trace them and see how they assemble into structures.

— Eric Betzig

With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a…

— Max von Laue

The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical…

— Rosalind Franklin

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

— Dorothy Hodgkin