“My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our...” — John Cornforth Quote

“My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our thanks to the Royal Academy of Sciences and to the Nobel Foundation for the honour conferred on us.”

“After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with Robert Robinson. Two such scholarships were awarded each year, and the other was won by Rita Harradence, also of Sydney and also an organic chemist.”

“Life does depend on accurate replication of molecules, and its complexity often requires that an enzyme shall accept one molecular species or type and transform it to equally specific products.”

“To me I don't think sport is something that I can take for life. I still have my academy, my studies.”

“Every day, I was on the street dribbling, doing skills. I wasn't in an academy till I was 19.”

“I always felt like the Academy was very late in acknowledging things. I've seen them do it with hip hop when it should have been acknowledged. It was already penetrating mass levels of culture and radio, and yet they wouldn't give it a proper category.”