Crystallography Quotes
May 12, 2009
My favorite crystallography quote has been:
“A structure is worth a thousand gels.” Unknown
I was reading through the comments and came across a quote posted by Rob:
“You gotta set up drops to get crystals.” Larry Shapiro
Do you know any other good crystallography quotes?
If you or your lab has some good ones, please list them in the comment section!
Luc
May 13th, 2009 at 2:34 AM #
I remember a seminar by Prof. G.F. Gao from Beijing where he said “Crystallographers help you see the biology.”
Sean
May 13th, 2009 at 6:11 PM #
Thanks for the quote Luc, good one!
Sean
May 15th, 2009 at 8:45 AM #
“Relationships are like crystals, you don’t realize how much you love it until it breaks.” Unknown
Sean
August 27th, 2009 at 7:56 AM #
“Indexing is like the death penalty: one outcome, so many way to carry it out.”
Sean
September 30th, 2009 at 4:42 PM #
“Crystallizability is inversely proportional to biological interest”
-Murphy’s crystallization law
Sean
October 29th, 2009 at 1:37 PM #
“Having a PhD means that you know a whole bunch about very little, experience teaches you that very little is smaller than you think.”
Sean
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:35 AM #
“What do molecular biologists fear most? Three letters: PDB.” -Steve Bryant
Katherine K
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:00 PM #
Max Perutz, 1993 seminar at Cal State Fullerton: “Whenever you ask a crystallographer what they are doing, they will always tell you they are collecting data.”
Katherine K
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:01 PM #
Colleague at West Coast Protein Cystallography Workshop, 1990s: “Be there, or be orthorhombic.”
Sean
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:32 PM #
@Katerine K
Welcome! so funny, made my day.
thanks.