What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to…

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

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

— Victoria Principal

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

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

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

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

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

— Paracelsus

“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and…

— Johann Joachim Becher

“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.”

— Mary Shelley

The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods…

— Wolfgang Ostwald

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist.…

— Stephen LaBerge

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing.…

— Pablo Picasso

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

Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the desire to…

— Henry Edward Armstrong