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I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.

Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.

You have to look at how chemistry develops.

Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new structures.