Great Quote by Marie Curie

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated…

— Alan Watts

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

— Gottfried Leibniz

As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The most perfect…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Scheele independently discovered eight elements—chlorine, fluorine, manganese, barium, molybdenum, tungsten, nitrogen, and oxygen—but received credit for none of them in his lifetime. He had…

— Bill Bryson

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

My best inorganic friend is science!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Water: 35 Liters. Carbon: 20 Kg. Ammonia: 4 Liters. Lime: 1.5 Kg. Phosphorus: 800 g. Salt: 250 g. Saltpeter: 100g. Sulfur: 80g. Fluorine: 7.5…

— Hiromu Arakawa

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

— Antoine Lavoisier

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

— Henry David Thoreau

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our…

— Richard Ernst

As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.

— John Burroughs