Best Chemical Sayings
520 Chemical quotes by 392 unique authors
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Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin
— GZA
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The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from…
— Henry Edward Armstrong
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That henceforth the absurd game of chemical noughts and crosses be tabu within the Society's precincts and that, following the practice of the Press in…
— Henry Edward Armstrong
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I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of chemists will go to the…
— Robert S. Mulliken
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The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult…
— H. Bentley Glass
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We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical…
— Unknown Author
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All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass…
— Archibald Garrod
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My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude…
— Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on the combination of oxygen absorbed…
— Robert Mayer
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The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve…
— Andre Michel Lwoff
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We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and…
— C. D. Darlington
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Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage,…
— Marcellin Berthelot
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The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an…
— August Kekule
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Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
— Rudolf Virchow
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The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such…
— Unknown Author
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The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given…
— Robert Mayer
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[Pitchblende] consists of a peculiar, distinct, metallic substance. Therefore its former denominations, pitch-blende, pitch-iron-ore, &c. are no longer applicable, and must be supplied by another…
— Martin Heinrich Klaproth
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In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and…
— Alexander Fleming
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Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well…
— Unknown Author
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving…
— Humphry Davy
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I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction…
— Carl E. Olson
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Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now to…
— Peter D. Mitchell
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The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous…
— Marie Curie
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The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable…
— Peter Bergen
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