When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can… — Leroy Cronin Copy Share Image
I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that — Victoria Principal Copy Share Image
The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine. — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour,… — Johann Joachim Becher Copy Share Image
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use… — Wolfgang Ostwald Copy Share Image
From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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… — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Copy Share Image
Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
A certain kind of methodologically-minded philosopher of science is quick to read off metaphysical conclusions from features of scientific practice. Chemists don't… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting… — Brian Ellis Copy Share Image
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
