Ryoji Quotes

#1. From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

David Attenborough

#5. 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

#6. None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Clarence Darrow

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

Ryoji Noyori

#8. Pray fIor my soul, more things are wrought bX prayer than this world dreams of
-- Tennyson

Neville Goddard

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

Ryoji Noyori

#10. Love at first sight might be fiction, but most fiction has a grain of truth in it, right?

Pauline Creeden

#11. The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security ... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

Warren Rudman

#12. I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

Bob Hawke

#13. Ryoji: It's either that she doesn't know how to lean on someone or she's simply that selfless. She won't give me a space to worry about her. Beyond that, she'll protect others instinctively.

Bisco Hatori

#14. My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

Joseph Lancaster

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

Ryoji Noyori

#16. 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

#17. 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.

Ryoji Noyori

#18. Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.

Ryoji Noyori

#19. We have it backward. Faith is not business, and there is no such thing as quarterly growth of the inward life.

Ricky Maye

#20. And our desire to know
Each other and desert
Each other for new
Centers of meaning so that
The boundaries may reign
And in doing so be undone.

Rob Schlegel