Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

Misattributed to Johann Reiss. Probably by Peter Reiss. Die Chemie ist der unreinliche Teil der Physik. Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

— Johann Philipp Reis

“I love it when you talk dirty physics.”

— Rachel Caine

The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

— Francis Crick

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of…

— Louis Pasteur

I built on the efforts of a previous scientist, others will build on the work I'm doing and if I look at the whole…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry.…

— Alton Brown

If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.

— Magnus Pyke

When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and this kind…

— Freeman Dyson

In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we…

— Michio Kaku

The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for…

— Alexander von Humboldt

Chemistry seems to be pretty much nailed down, and biology gains ground all the time. But physics seems to be mired in idle rumination.…

— Jeremy Hardy

“We are at the dawn of a new era, the era of 'molecular biology' as I like to call it, and there is an…

— William Astbury

Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little…

— Nathan Myhrvold

“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able…

— Wilhelm Korner