Quotes by Women Chemists

Dorothy Hodgkin

Kathleen Lonsdale

Ellen Swallow Richards

Ida Freund

Ann Shulgin

There is very little difference between men and women in space.

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

Dorothy Hodgkin

Some sort of false logic has crept into our schools, for the people whom I have seen doing housework or cooking know nothing of botany or chemistry, and the people who know botany and chemistry do not cook or sweep. The conclusion seems to be, if one knows chemistry she must not cook or do housework.

Ellen Swallow Richards

A crystal is like a class of children arranged for drill, but standing at ease, so that while the class as a whole has regularity both in time and space, each individual child is a little fidgety!

Kathleen Lonsdale

There is inherent in the human mind a desire to find an explanation - or as some would prefer to have it called, a description - of the phenomena of nature, by means of speculations concerning the ultimate constitution of matter.

Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.