Abbreviations Quote by Sylvia Plath

“I completely failed to see the value in memorizing the stupid periodic table of elements.”

— Inara Scott

...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a…

— William Whewell

“There are only 3 chemical symbols which spell full words. The words are “Be” for Beryllium, “No” for Nobelium and “I“ for Iodine. Multiple…

— Sybrina Durant

Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that…

— Michael Faraday

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

— Isadore Singer

“If the Chemistry is not right, Arithmetic won't workout.”

— Ganesh V

“Only three of the naturally occurring elements were manufactured in the big bang. The rest were forged in the high-temperature hearts and explosive remains…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

— Miguel de Unamuno

We need less memorization - I never memorized the periodic table of the elements - I've never used it, and I'm a physicist! I…

— Michio Kaku

We call chemistry the 'c' word on 'Top Gear,' and you can't fake that, can you?

— Chris Harris

“If the elements are the alphabets of chemistry, then the compounds are its plays, its poems, and its novels.”

— Loretta Jones Peter Atkins

“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of…

— C.P. Snow