Frederick Gowland Hopkins Quote

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."

In: Joseph Needham and Ernest Baldwin (eds.), Hopkins & Biochemistry, Report of the British Association, Some Chemical Aspects of Life, 1933 (p. 245)