94 Quotes About British-scientist

X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution.

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally.

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

But technology is a tool, not a virtue.

Another very interesting trend which it is not easy to classify is the growing repudiation of coercion, especially of violent or physical coercion.

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.