Quotes from Dorothy Hodgkin

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'