Robert Burns Woodward Quote

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.


"Art and Science in the Synthesis of Organic Compounds: Retrospect and Prospect," in Pointers and Pathways in Research (Bombay:CIBA of India, 1963)


The unique challenge which chemical synthesis provides for the creative imagination and the skilled hand ensures that it will endure as long as men...

The unique challenge which chemical synthesis provides for the creative imagination and the skilled hand ensures that it will endure as long as men...

The unique challenge which chemical synthesis provides for the creative imagination and the skilled hand ensures that it will endure as long as men...

The unique challenge which chemical synthesis provides for the creative imagination and the skilled hand ensures that it will endure as long as men...