Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he…

We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality…

— Johannes Stark

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

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

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

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

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

— Mary Shelley

“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

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

— Paracelsus

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

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

— Victoria Principal

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

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