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Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours…

— Frederick Soddy

Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

“My father looked carelessly at the title page of my book, and said, "Ah! Cornelius Agrippa! My dear Victor, do not waste your time…

— Mary Shelley

The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds and faculties…

— Justus von Liebig

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took…

— Albert Hofmann

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a…

— Donald Johanson

The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string…

— Thomas Jefferson

One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium…

— Freeman Dyson

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

“...as the bitterroots, necessary for the healing but unpleasant to taste. (What Father Sacco's parishioners say about the man.)”

— Joseph C. Sciarillo

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

— Serge Lang

“I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the…

— Harold Urey