Chemist Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of…

— Edward Gibbon

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create…

— Anonymous

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

— Simon Critchley

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

— George Bernard Shaw

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

— William Standish Knowles

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his…

— Ouida

“Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the fulness of time he got used to…

— Henry James

“If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts…

— Edward Gibbon

How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its…

— Mark Rowlands