Acid Quote by Victor Grignard

In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations,…

— Otto Wallach

We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

— August Kekule

In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are…

— Jean-Baptiste Dumas

The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more…

— Jean-Baptiste Dumas

...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?

— Saul Bellow

I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical…

— Donald Cram

“[The] structural theory is of extreme simplicity. It assumes that the molecule is held together by links between one atom and the next: that…

— Nevil Vincent Sidgwick

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality…

— Johannes Stark

We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable…

— Anonymous

“Hydrogen is used in more compounds (nearly 100) than any other element because it can form bonds with almost all metals, metalloids, and non-metals.…

— Sybrina Durant

“There’s no doubt about it: more varieties of carbon-based molecules exist than all other kinds of molecules combined.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle…

— Otto Wallach