Chemists Quotes

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I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of… — Harry Kroto
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work. — John Suckling
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
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
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
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
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
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and… — Wolfgang Ostwald
Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of… — Humphry Davy
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
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
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
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
Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the… — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne);… — Antoine Lavoisier
Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of… — Henry Margenau
I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that — Victoria Principal
Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man. — Margery Allingham
Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig… — George Iles
I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means,… — George Bernard Shaw

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