Yes, from the time I was in junior high school I decided I…

Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing…

— Gertrude B. Elion

What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system…

— Thomas Kuhn

You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“In 1902, Marcellin P. Berthelot , often called the founder of modern organic chemistry, was one of France's most celebrated scientists—if not the world's.…

— Robert K. Wilcox

All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.

— Richard P. Feynman

“Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist...”

— Joseph Banks

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only…

— Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian…

— Leroy Cronin

I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists,…

— Richard Lewontin

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be…

— Francis Collins

Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he…

— Sam Kean

The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out…

— Henry Edward Armstrong

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that

— Victoria Principal

When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental…

— Kay Redfield Jamison