So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.
All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.
My first part-time job gave me the smell of earning money when I worked in a village chemist aged 14. I loved helping the pharmacist with prescriptions and on the shop floor, with its glamorous make-up aisle.
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.
Be a physical chemist, an organic chemist, an analytical chemist, if you will; but above all be a Chemist.
A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.
A chemist who does not know mathematics is seriously handicapped.
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist.
Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. . . . Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill.
I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
I don't worry about things I can't control.
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.
