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Chemistry Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and…
- I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those… — Herman Boerhaave
- The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes,… — Alton Brown
- A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.… — Louis Agassiz
- Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do… — Gertrude B. Elion
- I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry… — Samuel Hahnemann