Dorothy Hodgkin Quotes

#1. I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

Dorothy Hodgkin

#2. You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?

Dorothy Hodgkin

#4. I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close.

Dorothy Hodgkin

#5. A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

Dorothy Hodgkin

#6. Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.

Richard Powers

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

Dorothy Hodgkin

#8. Kids hate anyone who is different.

Tamsin Egerton

#9. I have come to realize that truly rich people are rich not because they are frugal or they chose to be frugal, but because they are so grateful, contented and full of self-worth that they don't have to prove anything to anyone with material possessions. This way, they appear frugal.

Jan Mckingley Hilado

#10. Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Helen Keller

#11. But, while she strives to chill Desire,
Her brighter Eyes such warmth inspire,
She checks the Flame, but cannot quench the Fire.

Gerald Bullett

#12. We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

Oscar Wilde

#13. The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.

Anthony Fauci

#14. ...The coarse rhetoric and reduction of women to violently empty reproductive organs isn't a great way to argue against Trump's vulgarity. The unhinged rhetoric, violent anti-speech street protests,and hysteria currently on display don't make Trump look like he's a unique threat.

Mollie Hemingway

#15. I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#16. There are amazing people in this world that just need an opportunity.

Leigh Anne Tuohy

#17. When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe.

Alyssa Sutherland

#18. I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'

Dorothy Hodgkin

#19. If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

Ryan Reynolds

#20. I wouldn't let my children play football.

Peter Landesman

#21. I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.

Dorothy Hodgkin