Johann Joachim Becher Quotes

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

Johann Joachim Becher

Change, Kings, Flames

"Physica subterranea". Book by Johann Joachim Becher, 1669.

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Born: May 6, 1635
Occupation: Physician
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