Robert Burns Woodward Quotes

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The synthesis of substances occurring in Nature, perhaps in greater measure than activities in any other area of organic chemistry, provides a measure of the conditions and powers of science.

Robert Burns Woodward
I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odours—good or bad, the rainbow of colours; the gleaming vessels of every size, shape and purpose.

Robert Burns Woodward
We all know that enforced propinquity often leads on to greater intimacy.

Robert Burns Woodward
It is well to remember that most arguments in favor of not trying an experiment are too flimsily based.

Robert Burns Woodward
The structure known, but not yet accessible by synthesis, is to the chemist what the unclimbed mountain, the uncharted sea, the untilled field, the unreached planet, are to other men.

Robert Burns Woodward
The unique challenge which chemical synthesis provides for the creative imagination and the skilled hand ensures that it will endure as long as men write books, paint pictures, and fashion things which are beautiful, or practical, or both.

Robert Burns Woodward
The achievement of the objective in itself cannot but thrill all chemists, who even before they know the details of the journey can apprehend from their own experience the joys and elations, the disappointments and false hopes, the obstacles overcome, the frustrations subdued, which they experienced who traversed a road to the goal.

Robert Burns Woodward