Quotes by Donald Cram - Page 1

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.
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Application
Mind
Applications
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To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.
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Change
Smile
Chemistry
Fascination
Fields
Research
Years
Retain
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Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.
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Chemistry
Inspired
Levels
Acquainted
Avoid
Biological
Molecular
Scientists
Systems
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By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.
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Girl
Careers
Children
College
Court
Decided
Accordingly
By The Time
Entered
Professional
Regretted
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I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first.
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Firsts
Looks
Reading
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This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
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Funny
Inspirational
Careers
Columbus
Compounds
Methodology
Sail
Setting
Starting
Unpredictable
Largely
Properties
Throughout
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An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
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Experiments
Fog
Guides
Ideas
Negative
Positive Results
Research
Should Have
By The Time
Wild
Completed
Eventually
Field
Foggy
He Or She
Investigator
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Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to accomplish the most complicated and delicate of tasks. Many organic chemists viewing crystal structures of enzyme systems or nucleic acids and knowing the marvels of specificity of the immune systems must dream of designing and synthesizing simpler organic compounds that imitate working features of these naturally occurring compounds.
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Dream
Science
Knowing
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Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work-and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification.
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Reading
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