Quotes About Perutz

#1. I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger ... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as 'Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest.

Cesar Milstein

#2. For it's human nature even in the direst extremity to see a spark of hope and blow it into flames.

Leo Perutz

#3. For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book transformed the chemical flatland of my earlier textbooks into a world of three-dimensional structures.

Max Perutz

#4. Prayer is not just something on our to-do list; it's the breath of our soul.

Kimberly Hahn

#5. I symbolized doping ... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

Richard Virenque

#6. Our hearts and imaginations need to dance and play if we are to live awake

Jaeda DeWalt

#7. I rarely plan my research; it plans me.

Max Perutz

#8. Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

Larry Niven

#9. I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

Max F. Perutz

#10. I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.

Bindi Irwin

#11. On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

Max Perutz

#12. The addition of nuts in salad ... I always find to be beneficial.

Larry David

#13. I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.

Anna Kendrick

#14. What is known for certain is dull.

Max Perutz

#15. A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.

Max F. Perutz

#16. Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

Max Perutz

#17. Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

Max Perutz

#18. Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

Sylvia Earle

#19. But, when you've swallowed what's stuck in your throat, tell me who's the first to notice the rain in this part of the world.

Leo Perutz

#20. For my most gracious master still called me redhead, though my hair was already churchyard-coloured." And

Leo Perutz

#21. Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

Marco Pierre White

#22. People are best judged by their actions

Max Perutz

#23. It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

Dick Couch

#24. Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

Max Perutz

#25. I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

Ricky Jay

#26. In science, truth always wins

Max F. Perutz

#27. I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.

Mickalene Thomas