Quote by Dorothy Hodgkin
"I think one ought to as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
More from Dorothy Hodgkin
"You look at science, or at least at talk of science, and you find that it is assumed that there is no real conflict between science and religion. But there is, of course, a very real conflict."
"I was taught at school that science was as near to the truth as one could get, but this was not true."
"We have a responsibility to life, to the natural world and to the future to act with all the knowledge we have."
"Chemistry is a science, but also an art. Structure and form in molecules can be as beautiful as any sculpture."