Acid Quote by Otto Wallach

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

We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

— August Kekule

In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are…

— Jean-Baptiste Dumas

As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle…

— Otto Wallach

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized…

— Anonymous

Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.

— J. Norman Collie

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

— Gottfried Leibniz

Chemistry is one of those things: it's hard to nail down what it is or how you get it.

— Noah Centineo

I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the…

— Michael Faraday

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

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes…

— K. Eric Drexler

You don't buy chemistry, nor do you manufacture it, it is what it is.

— Stephen A. Smith