Frederick Gowland Hopkins Quotes

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The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of its manifold surfaces, must efficiently contribute to the due guidance of chemical reactions.

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

A very distinguished organic chemist long since dead, said to me in the late eighties: "The chemistry of the living? That is the chemistry of protoplasm; that is superchemistry; seek, my young friend, for other ambitions."

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wilderness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Now Time's Andromeda on this rock rude, With not her either beauty's equal or Her injury's, looks of by both horns of shore Her flower, her piece of being, doomed dragon's food.

Frederick Gowland Hopkins