Book Quote by Max Perutz

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

— Tahereh Mafi

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our…

— Richard Ernst

The essential principles of the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules had been correctly formulated by the first Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Jacobus van't Hoff,…

— John Cornforth

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American…

— Peter Agre

I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful…

— Saul Bellow

A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have…

— Mo Willems

“No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in old motion…

— Ray Bradbury

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.

— Alice Steinbach

“It stretches, this little trick of mine, from book to book, and everything else, comparatively, plays over the surface of it. The order, the…

— Henry James

“I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books--I’m…

— Anatole Broyard

I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.

— Kelli Berglund

“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement." from Mr.…

— Chris Van Allsburg