"In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we neve…"

"...all the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere they suppos…"

"I miss the old days, when nearly every problem in X-ray crystallography was a puzzle that could be solved only by muc…"

"Since modern crystallography dawned with X-ray diffraction experiments on crystals by Max von Laue in 1912 and Willia…"

"Aeroplanes fly safely because crystallography tests computer models of materials under stress. Drugs are more potent …"

"Crystallography is increasingly focusing its resources on large multidisciplinary facilities, such as powerful X-ray …"

"Crystallographers have a raft of methods at their disposal. Von Laue scattered X-ray photons from atoms. Now experime…"

"It takes a very special breed of scientist to do this work...it is an area of science in which women dominate."

"Thanks to the methods that [Crystallographers] have devised for investigating crystal structures, an entirely new wor…"

"Crystallographers should take a lesson from particle physicists and create a body run by scientists for the governanc…"