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Robert Robinson Quotes

In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

Robert Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: September 13, 1886 - February 8, 1975

Topics

Teacher Place University Laboratory

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Johann G. Seume

Stupidity Mind Body Idleness

Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

John Grisham

Morning Every Wake Bit

On 'Flash,' you've never seen the last of anybody, no matter what happens to them.

Andrew Kreisberg

You Matter Never Seen Last Happens

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

John Oliver

Think Behavior Human Behavior Wit

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

Robert Musil

People World Army Violence System

I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.'

Jeannette Walls

Looking Feel Glass Through Like

This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'.

John Stamos

Family Mother God Heart Ugly Baby

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

John Podhoretz

Me Reading Worth Say Columns

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.

Steven Wright

Walking Down Street Out Some Had

I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.

Mary J. Blige

Business Music Yourself Think You

I wrote 'And Two Boys Booed' several years ago, but we really chased around looking for the perfect illustrator, so it took a while.

Judith Viorst

Looking Perfect Two Years Around

Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies to meet the demands of creditors. They surrender their freedom, becoming slaves to their own extravagance.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Freedom Time Fast Surrender Meet