You know you're a chemist when you expect your washing…

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