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| My new boss in Cambridge sent me 2 review papers on supramolecular chemistry. This is the first page of one of the reviews:
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| Excerpt from << Nanocosm>> p.112 
"......Furthermore,
we must visit nature not as conquerors but as acolytes. At last we know enough
to be modest; and armed with that new modesty, we must change the way we think,
make, and dream. We must do as Lady Nature does." | | |
| Double Quotation:
Nobel Lecture in Chemistry 1994, by Prof. George A. OLAH 
"Intensive, critical studies of a controversial topic always help to
eliminate possibility of any errors. One of my favorite quotation is
that by George Bekessy (Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1961). 45 “[One] way
of dealing with errors have friends who are willing to spend the time
necessary to carry out a critical examination of the experimental
design beforehand and the results after the experiments been completed.
An even better way is to have an enemy. An enemy is willing to a vast
amount of time and brain power to ferreting out errors both large and
small, this without any compensation. The trouble is that really
capable enemies are scarce; most of them are only ordinary. Another
trouble with enemies is that they sometimes develop into friends and
lose a good deal of their zeal. It was in this way the writer lost his three
best enemies. Everyone, not just scientists, need a few good enemies!” "
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| Towards the end of the book, the author never fails in adding flavor to it. 
<< Nanocosm >>
p. 233
As the next day wears on, a
vile joke heard long ago comes to mind. An overweight man, having failed at
every other diet, visits a Sure-Fire Weight Loss Clinic. The first day he’s
shown into a locked room where he’s greeted by a beautiful woman in a Versaci
gown. “If you catch me,” she says, “I’m yours.” She leads him on a high-speed
chase that causes him to shed ten pounds. The next day the woman’s wearing in a
bikini, and in the chase, he loses twenty pounds. The third day he’s shown into
a smaller room where a 500-pound sumo wrestler, stark naked, is smiling
wickedly. “If I catch you,” the wrestler says, “you are mine.”
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| Another quote from << Nanocosm >> 
p.
184
"A Ph.D., it’s been said, learns more and more
about less and less, until he knows everything about nothing. (By contrast,
honesty compels me to admit, we science journalists learn less and less about
more and more, until we know nothing about everything.)"
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