Chemicals Quote by Enrico Fermi

“The idea of an anthropic principle began with the remark that the laws of nature seem surprisingly well suited to the existence of life.…

— Steven Weinberg

O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium…

— Lise Meitner

“Further analysis of the Sun’s spectrum revealed the signature of an element that had no known counterpart on Earth. Being of the Sun, the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of…

— C.P. Snow

“in the forty-five years centered on 1910, the nature of the atom was first understood—partly by shooting pieces of atoms at atoms and watching…

— Carl Sagan

“Only three of the naturally occurring elements were manufactured in the big bang. The rest were forged in the high-temperature hearts and explosive remains…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might…

— Victor Francis Hess

[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man;…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission…

— Edward Teller

There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there…

— John Ashworth Ratcliffe

“helium became the first and only element in the chemist’s Periodic Table to be discovered someplace other than Earth. Okay,”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been…

— Emilio G. Segre