Chemist Quotes - Page 7

• All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Chemistry, Physics, Knows

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• There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

  Pablo Picasso

  Color, Trying, Want

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• Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Cute, Science, Years

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• The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids to enable such subtle bodies [air, light, &c.] to make a well-defined impression on organs as blunt as ours; that it is laudable to encourage investigation but to hold back conclusion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Science, Light

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• As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

  Joan Dye Gussow

  Fitness, Food, Health

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• Alchemists turned into chemists
  when they stopped keeping secrets.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Knowledge, Keeping Secrets, Alchemist

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• I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.

  Peter Carey

  People, Zoologist, Would Be

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• I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Appeals, Gas

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• Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Vertigo, I Can

  Eva Ibbotson (2008). “A Song for Summer”, p.178, Pan Macmillan

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• Faith is the head chemist of the mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Infinite Intelligence, Mind, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.43, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

  Richard P. Feynman

  Two, Numbers, Three

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.113, Princeton University Press

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• I assume the same problem exists in Australia as in America of back-biting and jealousy and parochialism among disciplines - there are the scientists, and there are the humanities people, and there are chemists and the physicists and everybody snipes at everybody else and inter-disciplinary communication is rare. But it's very precious and necessary.

  Richard Lewontin

  Communication, America, Australia

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Sex, Men, Males

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• Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Science, Views

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.273, Univ of California Press

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• I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are few occupations that give more satisfactions [sic] than masterly experimentation along the old lines of this highly specialised science.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Men, Giving, Feelings

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• As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

  Otto Wallach

  Molecules, Tasks, Substance

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