Melvin Calvin quotes

Melvin Calvin was an American chemist renowned for discovering the Calvin cycle in photosynthesis research. His groundbreaking work revealed how plants convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to biochemistry. Here are 3 of his quotes:

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

Melvin Calvin

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

Melvin Calvin