Chemistry Quotes - Page 31

• The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.

  Paola Antonelli

  Ideas, Design, Able

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• In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Science, Discovery, Twenties

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• Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic,
  Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix,
  Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

  Kathleen Raine

  Queens, Science, White

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• Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

  Jacob Grimm

  Powerful, Latin, Science

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• Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

  Johann Philipp Reis

  Dirty, Science, Physics

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• One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.

  Freeman Dyson

  Xenon, Memorable, Science

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• When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and this kind of stuff. We thought it would be a biological war. Fortunately it wasn't and, but it's because the danger is still there and by some miracle we escaped all that, so you never can tell what it going to happen, but biology certainly could be even worse than physics and chemistry.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Teenager, Miracle

  "Could Science Make the 21st Century Worse Than the 20th?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated.

  Slash

  Gun, Rose, Embodiment

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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• When love and discipline come together you have great chemistry.

  Rick Pitino

  Wrestling, Discipline, Together

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• Doing a film with your friend is probably the best way to end that friendship but we worked together really well. We just have that thing. Chemistry is something that... I just think it is the last thing in Hollywood, the last magical thing they haven't computerised. There's nothing you can do about it - it's either there or it's not and it doesn't matter if you're friends or not. It was just a bonus that we were.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Together, Hollywood

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy.

  Freeman Dyson

  Teaching, School, Mean

  "Could Science Make the 21st Century Worse Than the 20th?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• We learned early on that we had chemistry and I was so grateful for that. It's like one of the few magical things about film that still exists.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Grateful, Film, Stills

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• Chemistry is like an indefinable thing. When it comes to people playing your best friend or your parents or anything like that, there's always different kind of element to chemistry.

  Emma Stone

  People, Parent, Different

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• I always say that chemistry is something impossible to manufacture. It's either there or it isn't. The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Facts, Impossible

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• The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Facts

  "Ryan Reynolds gets personal". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

  Nicholas Kurti

  Science, Thinking, Reflection

  "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen". Book by Harold McGee, March 20, 2007.

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• As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced to use the methods of this science [chemistry]. No longer will the microscope, the kymograph, the scalpel avail for the complete solution of the problem. For the further analysis of these phenomena which are in flux and flow, the investigator must associate himself with those who have labored in fields where molecules and atoms, rather than multicellular tissues or even unicellular organisms, are the units of study.

  John Jacob Abel

  Science, Animal, Atoms

  John Jacob Abel, Otto Folin, Theobald Smith (1915). “Experimental and chemical studies of the blood: with an appeal for more extended chemical training for the biological and medical investigator”

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• Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room."

  Warren Weaver

  Doors, Two, Rooms

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• This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.

  Adolf von Baeyer

  Science, Discovery, Cells

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• It's a mystery that thing about chemistry because often people who hate each other in real life and hate each other on the set have great chemistry on the screen. And people who love each other in real life and love each other on the set have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever.

  Helen Mirren

  Life And Love, Hate, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts that are made by Incineration) have the virtue of Restoring it.

  Robert Boyle

  Science, Animal, Substance

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• Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Medicine, Glasses

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