Able Quote by Otto Wallach

Synthesis..., perhaps in greater measure than activities in any other area of organic chemistry, provides a measure of the condition and power of science.…

— Robert Burns Woodward

Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the lab, one step at a time, from extremely…

— Gregory Petsko

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized…

— Anonymous

We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes…

— K. Eric Drexler

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the…

— Isaac Newton

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

— Walter Gropius

“Once a molecule is asymmetric, its extension proceeds also in an asymmetrical sense. This concept completely eliminates the difference between natural and artificial synthesis.…

— Emil Fischer

As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then…

— Otto Wallach

Chemistry happens naturally, and there's not really a lot you can do intentionally to create it.

— Josephine Langford

We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

— August Kekule