Acid Quote by Anonymous

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

— Eric S. Raymond

Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the…

— Gaston Bachelard

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it…

— E. P. Thompson

“Saccharin was discovered in 1879 when a research fellow at Johns Hopkins University found his bread extra sweet one night and figured that something…

— Thomas Kelley

In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the…

— Marjory Stephenson

A whole host of things that we now know are drugs turn out to be plant alkaloids.

— Gregory Petsko

“My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy. { Commenting…

— Jean-Baptiste Biot

This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much as it…

— Friedrich Wohler

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.

— Linus Pauling

One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an…

— Richard Evans Schultes

“That a free, or at least an unsaturated acid usually exists in the stomachs of animals, and is in some manner connected with the…

— William Prout

“opsin is a kind of molecule that conveys information from the outside of a cell to the inside.”

— Neil Shubin