Prelog U Quotes

#1. Leaders should be leading, not hunting around in the weeds for land mines.

Michael Bader

#2. 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

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

Vladimir Prelog

#4. 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

#5. After all, my uniform still had the distinct odor of Nasty Pond.

Rachel Hawkins

#6. Runningkit and Mousekit, three moons older, were teasing them by flicking lumps of snow at them and then looking innocent when the kits skidded to a halt to complain.

Erin Hunter

#7. What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience.

Andreas Feininger

#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. To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#10. When we look ahead to 2018, we should expect big steps forward in science to come once again from changes in style rather than from marginal improvements in technology.

Freeman Dyson

#11. Sonny was a spiky ray of light to those lucky enough to be close to him, but life had taught him to play his cards close to his chest.

Garrett Leigh

#12. ...Domestic violence occurs at all socioeconomic levels.

Asa Don Brown

#13. 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

#14. I am the student who picks his nose, so come over here and take off your clothes.

John Hiatt

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.

Gustave Flaubert

#18. There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

Andy Kaufman

#19. A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.

Ralph Klein

#20. Life is truly a miracle and must be protected, safeguarded and treasured.

Q.M. Herrera