Acid Quote by Hilary Kornblith

Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

— Keith Richards

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You have to look at how chemistry develops.

— Tim Hardaway

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

The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be…

— Gaston Bachelard

“If you are ever forced to take a chemistry class, you will probably see, at the front of the classroom, a large chart divided…

— Lemony Snicket

“... thirteen aluminum atoms grouped together in the right way do a killer bromine, the two entities indistinguishable in chemical reactions.”

— Sam Kean

In the lab, we're discovering that nature can do chemistry we never dreamed was possible.

— Frances Arnold

I have made some headway in addressing these questions, however, and succeeded in explaining how it is that the category of knowledge might play…

— Hilary Kornblith

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

— Francis Bacon

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

— Aristotle