Quote by Sam Kean

“The acid test of a strength? The ability is a strength only if you can fathom yourself doing it repeatedly, happily, and successfully.”

— Donald O. Clifton

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some…

— Noam Chomsky

Chemists in earlier centuries were quite interested in the nature of acids. They had no interest in analysing their concept of acid. After all,…

— Hilary Kornblith

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

— Cilla Black

“It refers to the concentration of hydrogen ions. The fewer the hydrogen ions, the greater the pH level; the greater the pH level, the…

— Om Swami

You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium,…

— Richard P. Feynman

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given…

— Jim Capaldi

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

— Stephen A. Smith

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

— Miguel de Unamuno

“My health significantly improved by taking alpha lipoic acid.”

— Steven Magee

Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Ingredients should not read like a chemistry experiment!

— Jessica Capshaw