Bitter Compounds

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or compounds:

    The bitter sea of life is boundless; if one but turns around, there’s the shore.
    Chinese proverb.

    We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that’s the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.
    Cyril Ponnamperuma (b. 1923)