Prelog Quotes

#1. Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.

Vladimir Prelog

#2. The period 1924 to 1929 was spent studying chemistry at the Czech Institute of Technology in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The supervisor of my thesis was Professor Emil Votocek, one of the prominent founders of chemical research in Czechoslovakia.

Vladimir Prelog

#3. People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

Katherine Jenkins

#4. A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles, and it can be reconstructed from a set of triangles.

Vladimir Prelog

#5. Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen

Robyn Carr

#6. way, please call.

John Grisham

#7. As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

Jonathan Tropper

#8. I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.

Vladimir Prelog

#9. Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

Austin O'Malley

#10. Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

John Noble

#11. You eat donuts before you work out?" I queried. "Not every time, but do it occasionally to remind myself why I'm workin' out," he responded. This was absurd but I had to admit, it also made an absurd kind of sense.

Kristen Ashley

#12. For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtained Swiss citizenship. However, I consider myself a world citizen, and I am very grateful to my adopted country that it allows me to be one.

Vladimir Prelog

#13. An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

Vladimir Prelog

#14. I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

Sergei Bubka

#15. To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.

Vladimir Prelog