Chemistry Quotes

• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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• Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.

  Peter Atkins

  Stars, Block, Elements

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  Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

  Adam Sandler

  Making Love, Cracks, Good And Bad

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• All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Gold, Glitter, May

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• No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Important, I Love You

  "Symposium on Structure of Enzymes and Proteins" by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, (p. 284), 1956.

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• One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

  Blake Shelton

  Fake, One Thing, Cant

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• To think is to practice brain chemistry.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Practice, Brain

  Deepak Chopra (1995). “Creating Health: How to Wake Up the Body's Intelligence”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.

  Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville

  Needs, Arguing, Made

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• Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Science, Water

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Ifs

  "Sanaa Lathan Finds 'Something New' In Interracial Romance" by Brandee J. Tecson, www.mtv.com. February 02, 2006.

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• There's nothing colder than chemistry.

  Anita Loos

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Real, Unity, Earth

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• Chemistry is all about getting lucky.

  Robert Curl

  Lucky

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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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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Tools, Use, Telescopes

  "SIGACT trying to get children excited about CS" by Michael R. Fellows, Computing Research News, archive.cra.org. January, 1993.

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• Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Chemist, Ought

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.328, Courier Corporation

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• Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

  David E. Kelley

  Producers, Plans, Executives

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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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• Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

  Dennis Rodman

  Funny, Sports, School

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• The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

  Peter Hook

  Special, Factories, Made

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• The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Law, States, Materials

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• You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.

  Ali Larter

  Connections, Feels, Knows

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• When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it's easy and it's fun. You hardly call it work.

  Joe Lando

  Fun, Easy

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• My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Home, School, Science

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• The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

  Derek Barton

  Firsts, Serious, Application

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