Able Quote by Christopher Kelk Ingold

Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and nucleophilic (nucleus-seeking)…

— Christopher Kelk Ingold

“Why’s a sticky word, though. It’s not especially productive to think of them as agents with agendas. Better to think of them as—as very…

— Peter Watts

Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn…

— Ernest Rutherford

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its…

— Humphry Davy

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were…

— Kenichi Fukui

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

— William S. Burroughs

I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions.

— Kenichi Fukui

At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of…

— Lynne McTaggart

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself…

— Johannes Stark

In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.

— Clemens Winkler

“Is chemistry a biological reaction which supports the propagation of our species? Or is it simply about being excited to find someone with mutually…

— Susan C. Young