For myself, I warmly thank the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Chemistry for this mark of their approbation and for an award which confers the highest distinction that a scientist can achieve. I am greatly beholden also to my sponsors and supporters.

In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

That march really gave us a sense of atonement, a sense of being better men than we were, ... It challenged us to do more.

It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.

The structural or biogenetic relations of plant products as deduced from the recognizable architectural components of the molecules have been consistent guides in my investigations.

The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.

Very simply, cleaning equipment that produces less noise reduces worker fatigue and frustration, which results in healthier, more productive workers. It's actually surprisingand unfortunatethat we have not realized this until just recently.

Though it might be invidious to mention individuals, yet I may be allowed to say how much I owe to the constant help of my wife, not quite my first, but much my most consistent collaborator, and over the longest period of years.

There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.

The application for that is that we'll eventually understand the variations and be able to see the atmosphere well enough to predict them.