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The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of… — Thomas Jefferson
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But… — Karl Landsteiner
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The… — Fritjof Capra
When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through… — Louis Agassiz
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used… — Marie Curie
You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of equal note, reject… — Thomas Jefferson
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such… — Michael Faraday
It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next… — Sydney Brenner
The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material… — Claude Bernard
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary… — Oswald Avery
Chemical waste products are the droppings of science. — Lewis Thomas
Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is… — Louis Pasteur
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of… — Thomas Kuhn
At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery,… — Robert Bunsen
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering… — Francis Crick
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general… — Frederick Soddy
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed… — David H. Hubel
Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers,… — Unknown Author
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses… — Carl Zimmer
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the… — Wilson Greatbatch
I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called… — Justus von Liebig
There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste… — William J. Clinton
The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the… — Wilhelm Johannsen
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena… — Unknown Author

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