Donald Cram Quotes

#1. I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first.

Donald Cram

#2. This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

Donald Cram

#3. Take the Positive, and run! Run from the negative!

Margaret Aranda

#4. We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

Donald Cram

#5. The best shows I play, I almost don't even remember off the stage.

Jenny Lewis

#6. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

Elliot W. Eisner

#7. Our regrets want to bring
back many things we leave behind

Munia Khan

#8. By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

Donald Cram

#9. Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

Donald Cram

#10. We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

Helene D. Gayle

#11. An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

Donald Cram

#12. May the grace of God keep you strong through every difficulty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Persephone smiled. "Caleb and I play Super MArio Kart every day at one, and when he cancelled on me I knew something was up."
I looked at Caleb slowly.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#14. It's a strange business, speaking for yourself, because it doesn't at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject.

Gilles Deleuze

#15. I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

John Caudwell

#16. To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

Donald Cram