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I really like that quote "... live simply and do serious things.", what's the source on that? Thanks!
by mgreenleaf 6y ago
I really like that quote "... live simply and do serious things.", what's the source on that? Thanks!
- jfengel 6y agoThere doesn't appear to be a completely authentic source. It's cited to be part of a 1988 graduation speech at Bristol University, and appears to be more correctly "live modestly and do serious things". As far as I can tell, no printed copy of that speech exists, so it's all hearsay. The closest I can get to an authentic citation is a quote of it by a colleague in an obituary published by the Royal Society[1]. It rings authentic, in that it seems like something that would be said in the context of a graduation speech, and as such it may not have left a written record. [1] https://vdocuments.site/dorothy-mary-crowfoot-hodgkin-om-12-may-1910-29-july-1994.html https://vdocuments.site/dorothy-mary-crowfoot-hodgkin-om-12-...
- gnufx 6y agoHmm, yes, thanks. I know it as basically crystallographic lore from long ago, as in email sigs, but the only source I could find now is http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Dorothy-Hodgkin-booklet.pdf http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Dorothy-... I now find another familiar name from the past quoting the "modestly" version which I should use in future: https://sites.google.com/site/oxfordawisehome/elspeth-garman https://sites.google.com/site/oxfordawisehome/elspeth-garman