Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry.

- Alan J. Heeger

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

- Carl Sandburg

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

- Evan Parker

Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.

- Francis Crick

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

- Hans Kung

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

- John Oates

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

- Jonathan Dee

The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.

- Jacques Ibert