Chemistry Quotes - Page 5

• Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

  Auguste Comte

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book by Alan Lindsay Mackay, 1991.

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• I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known ones and when discovered are valueless-very illustrations perhaps of their refinements in analysis, but very little aiding the progress of true science.

  Michael Faraday

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Michael Faraday, Christian Friedirich Schoenbein (1899). “The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters”

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• In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

  Burton Richter

  Technology, Years, Interesting

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• The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

  Johannes V. Jensen

  Examination, Trends, Medical

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If it ain't tubes, we don't do it.

  Richard Smalley

  Tubes, Ifs

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• We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

  Richard Smalley

  Fishing, Fiber

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• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Pregnancy, Science

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

  Levon Helm

  Band, Thrill, Lasts

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• Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

  Richard Ernst

  School, Technology, Zurich

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• I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sharks

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1933). “Unpublished Letters”

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• In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.

  James MacArthur

  Believe, Hawaii, Ingredients

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• I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Teacher, Years, Proud

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• The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Guy, Really Cool, Attractive

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• Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

  John Pople

  Pain, Regret, Decision

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• To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

  Donald Cram

  Change, Years, Fascination

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• My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

  Geoffrey Wilkinson

  Mother, Brother, Age

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• In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Two, Wisconsin, Professors

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• During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Math, Years, Numbers

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• At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

  William Standish Knowles

  Strong, Math, Harvard

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• I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

  Steve Blake

  Good Friend, Scotland, Graduates

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• Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

  George Polya

  Science, Doe, Needs

  "Speaking of Science: Notable Quotes on Science, Engineering, and the Environment" by Jon Fripp, Michael Fripp, Deborah Fripp, Newnes (p. 45), 2000.

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• Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

  Gene Tierney

  Rehearsal, Rooms, Stage

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

  Edward Thorndike

  Art, Agriculture, Psychology

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• For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world... I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: "I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

  Primo Levi

  Spring, Science, Law

  "The Periodic Table". Book by Primo Levi, 1975.

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• However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

  Richard Ernst

  Book, Home, Hands

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