Best Chemicals Quotes
580 Chemicals quotes by 433 unique authors
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The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images…
— Reginald Fessenden
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies…
— Russell Baker
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I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
— Thomas Jefferson
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If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a…
— Oliver Sacks
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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
— Lewis Thomas
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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
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The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.
— Isaac Asimov
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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I did research when I was pregnant with my first daughter and was horrified by the chemicals in products, even those meant for babies. I…
— Jessica Alba
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