Karl Barry Sharpless Professions : Chemist Born : April 28, 1941 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Karl Barry Sharpless We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other players must guess what it is by asking questions that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no." I imagine every language has a similar game, and, for those of us who speak the language of science, the game is called The Scientific Method. Karl Barry Sharpless asking-questions player games What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist. Karl Barry Sharpless ocean tables children The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable. Karl Barry Sharpless discipline goal sky When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas. Karl Barry Sharpless sea discovery adventure Similar Authors Auguste Laurent chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann chemist August Kekule chemist Ascanio Sobrero chemist Antoine Lavoisier chemist Antoine Bechamp chemist All Authors
