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• We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been… — William Wordsworth
• Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
• I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that… — Unknown Author
• I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman.… — Max Perutz
• Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work. — John Suckling
• For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that… — Charles Sanders Peirce
• I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which… — Michael Faraday
• The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has… — Thomas Jefferson
• We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that… — R. Buckminster Fuller
• When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations… — Louis Agassiz
• Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has… — Calvin Coolidge
• You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this… — Thomas Jefferson

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