Chemistry Quote by Charles Darwin

During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they…

— Charles Darwin

“The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had…

— Richard Rhodes

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less…

— Liz Truss

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

— Samuel Johnson

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

— Miguel de Unamuno

“I looked for themes and underlying principles across lectures,” and “I went over mistakes until I was certain I understood them.” They were studying…

— Carol S. Dweck

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

— Eric Betzig

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find.…

— Richard J. Roberts

I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is…

— Justus von Liebig

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

— Samuel Butler

Chemists in earlier centuries were quite interested in the nature of acids. They had no interest in analysing their concept of acid. After all,…

— Hilary Kornblith