The goal of synthesis should be to make molecules as easily as possible, not just possible.
So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
Every decision we make in the fishing industry must consider the long-term health of marine life.
The only way to survive is to keep moving forward.
"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it."