Jean-Marie Lehn Quotes

Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering the rules that govern the structures, properties and transformations of molecular species.

Jean-Marie Lehn

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• People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Parents

• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Facts
  • Argument

• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Career
  • Stage
  • Films

• As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Job
  • Career
  • Want

• Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Today
  • Alone
  • Journey

• I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Play
  • Wind
  • Yes

• As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Up
  • True
  • Faith

• I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Black
  • Amazing
  • Weird

• I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Made
  • Living
  • Before

• When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Father
  • Running

• All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • True
  • Moral

• You may all go to pot.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May

• You're a train wreck, but I wouldn't love you if you changed.

  

  Demi Lovato

• Some of the stuff, I absolutely don't remember recording it, it's been so long. But I do like to try to throw in something a little different for the audience once in a while. Because a lot of these people who come to see have come back many, many times.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• When I arrived in New York, I was homeless with 400 bucks in my pocket.

  

  Jerome Jarre
  • Homeless

• I'm a studio rat.

  

  The Weeknd

• They should probably have a James Brown aerobic tape. You would lose a lot of weight.

  

  Chadwick Boseman

• I was a serious competitive figure skater and still ice-skate as much as I can. Anyway, I once brought a date to the rink to have him experience what I was into. So all is going fine, and then - bam! - he bit it extremely hard! Skate time was over. His bruises were scary. I felt so bad.

  

  Christian Serratos
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Bad

• We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Crazy

• There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Together
  • Crazy
  • Opinion

• When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Bad
  • Independence

• Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering the rules that govern the structures, properties and transformations of molecular species.

  

  Jean-Marie Lehn