Chemist Quote by Humphry Davy

What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system…

— Thomas Kuhn

“ John Dalton was a very singular Man: He has none of the manners or ways of the world. A tolerable mathematician He gained…

— Humphry Davy

James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic…

— Humphry Davy

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist.…

— Stephen LaBerge

The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods…

— Wolfgang Ostwald

“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.”

— Mary Shelley

“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and…

— Johann Joachim Becher

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

— Paracelsus

I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists,…

— Richard Lewontin

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be…

— Francis Collins

Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he…

— Sam Kean

The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out…

— Henry Edward Armstrong