#crystal

X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation in solution. ↗

— Derek Harold Richard Barton

#corresponds #crystal #determining #method #nowadays

He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#crystal #crystal ball #eat #glass #lives

Crystal skulls are a metaphor that reality is a consciousness hologram through which we experience virtually. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#crystal #crystal-skulls #quartz-crystal #quartz-skull #stephen-richards

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#crystal #crystal ball #future #i #speak

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#crystal #morality #our #scientists

You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#buddy #children #create #crystallize #curtis

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. ↗

— May Sarton

#agree #ambiguous #best #clear #crystal

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. ↗

— George Saunders

#any #approach #become #crystal #deep

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#crystal #down #everybody #focus #genuine

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#crystallize #different #economy #environment #granted