Chemist Quote by Thomas Jefferson

When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been…

— Louis Agassiz

“Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by ignoring the…

— Aldous Huxley

Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

— Thomas Thomson

“Even the word ‘science’ comes from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to cut’ or ‘to separate.’ The same root led to the word ‘shit,’ which…

— Neal Stephenson

Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves…

— Gregory Maguire

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

— Antoine Lavoisier

The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

— E. L. Doctorow

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…

— Antoine Lavoisier

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

“Saint John Paul II wrote, “when its concepts and conclusions can be integrated into the wider human culture and its concerns for ultimate meaning and…

— Ilia Delio

The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be…

— Gaston Bachelard