Certain Quote by Jean-Baptiste Dumas

Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional…

— Victor Grignard

In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations,…

— Otto Wallach

“In deriving a body from the water type I intend to express that to this body, considered as an oxide, there corresponds a chloride,…

— Charles Gerhardt

The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more…

— Jean-Baptiste Dumas

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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 nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

— Barry Commoner

“Once a molecule is asymmetric, its extension proceeds also in an asymmetrical sense. This concept completely eliminates the difference between natural and artificial synthesis.…

— Emil Fischer

We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

— August Kekule

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

— Michael Parkinson

Chemistry is so difficult to explain. It's there or it's not. And I notice with people it sometimes is there and then disappears with…

— Max Cavalera

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality…

— Johannes Stark