Chemistry Quotes

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I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making… — Thomas Jefferson
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known… — Michael Faraday
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
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all… — George Bernard Shaw
It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are… — Linus Pauling
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and… — George Polya
One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate.… — Freeman Dyson
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
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
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 contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids… — Thomas Jefferson
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance,… — Marie Curie
Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ... — W. W. Rouse Ball
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
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? — Benjamin Disraeli
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

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