Chemistry Quotes

It is the greatest pleasure to discover something new, and to be able to demonstrate it to others.

I have been so happy as to hit upon a method of making air, which is not only respirable, but eminently salubrious.

The force of chemical affinity is not a simple force, but a resultant of several forces, among which the electrical force is the most important.

The ocean acts as a great equalizer of temperature, and its influence on the climate is very considerable.

We know more than we can tell.

The most important thing in this science is to know the properties of things, for without this knowledge, one cannot achieve anything.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

I can make urea without needing a kidney, or indeed, any animal at all.

We must admit that the number of molecules in equal volumes of different gases, at the same temperature and pressure, is the same.

I was captured by chemistry and by crystals.

Chance favors only the prepared mind.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

The greatest discoveries of science have been made by the application of common sense to the facts of nature.

I am not so much a friend to the opinions of others, as to be fond of them, if I find them not agreeable to reason and experiment.

The structure of DNA is a double helix.

Science is the search for truth, the effort to understand the world, and the effort to understand ourselves.

The edifice of science requires not only a foundation, but also a roof, and the roof is the periodic law.

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.