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Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.
I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.
We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.
Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
All statements about the hydrides of boron earlier than 1912, when Stock began to work upon them, are untrue.
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.
The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.
After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.
Nothing is lost, nothing is created all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life.
As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.
Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia.
Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.
I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.
This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.
Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.
The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.
I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.
Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products.
Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.
In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.