Benzene Quote by August Wilhelm von Hofmann

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen…

— Alan Alda

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were…

— Kenichi Fukui

If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.

— Al Kooper

I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher…

— Justus von Liebig

I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I…

— Thomas A. Edison

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

— Albert Ellis

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.

— Filippo Brunelleschi

We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?

— Ernest Holmes

I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.

— John Cornforth