Chemist Quotes

We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.

Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.

Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.

Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.

Baeyer-a chemist who was more of an encyclopedist than a researcher.

Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.