Ryoji Noyori Quotes

#1. Molecular chirality plays a key role in science and technology. In particular, life depends on molecular chirality in that many biological functions are inherently dissymmetric.

Ryoji Noyori

#2. Being broken open by the storm is your only hope.

Bryant McGill

#3. I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

Helen Dunmore

#4. As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it."

Sergey Brin

#5. In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

Robert Kuttner

#6. In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.

Ryoji Noyori

#7. Blaise's creation, however, was not a myth. She - it - was an artificially created monster with potentially unlimited powers. For all they knew, it could destroy the world and every human being in it. And Blaise was attracted to it. The thought made Augusta so sick she thought she might throw up.

Dima Zales

#8. Except for a short period at the end of World War II, I attended an elementary school affiliated to Kobe University from ages six to twelve and then moved on to Nada Middle and High School from ages twelve to eighteen. I enjoyed many out-door activities in my youth.

Ryoji Noyori

#9. That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once.
They are the meaning.

Lauren Oliver

#10. RIKEN has attracted numerous outstanding scientists from inside and outside Japan, and these people have achieved creative and outstanding results.

Ryoji Noyori

#11. My father, Kaneki, was a gifted research director of a chemical company, and his profession strongly influenced the path of my life.

Ryoji Noyori

#12. We are not our body, that we have a body, but a body is not who we are. We are that which possesses a body, and that which stands outside of the body, if you please, and exists quite apart and independent from it, and uses the body as a device or tool.

Neale Donald Walsch

#13. Never forget, what your looking for is what is looking.

Wei Wu Wei

#14. What have you heard Dad?

Brydie Walker Bain

#15. The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs.

Ryoji Noyori

#16. Fairness is a wonderful attribute, Major Anderson. It has nothing to do with war.

Orson Scott Card

#17. I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.

Ryoji Noyori

#18. Chiral receptor sites in the human body interact only with drug molecules having the proper absolute configuration, resulting in marked differences in the pharmacological activities of enantiomers.

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#19. Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.

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#20. This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.

Ramana Maharshi