Chemistry Quote by Johann Philipp Reis

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

— Johann Philipp Reis

“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the…

— Michael Crichton

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

— Arthur C. Clarke

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

— Paul Dirac

Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

— Thomas Thomson

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— Nick Lane

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— William Astbury

“Thus, for those of us who make only a brief study of chemistry, the benefits to be expected are of an indirect nature. Increased…

— Horace G. Deming

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted…

— Frederick Soddy

Chemistry is the science of atoms. Elaborating on Democritus' idea, chemists learn how atoms stick or don't stick together, thus forming molecules.

— Jacques Dubochet