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In the whole world, there is nothing that is not subject to change.

The polarograph is a very sensitive instrument, capable of detecting even minute quantities of substances.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

The virus is a nucleoprotein, a molecule, and yet it has the property of life. This discovery bridges the gap between the living and the non-living.

I have been told that I was attempting the impossible, but I have always been a little deaf to such advice.

The use of radioactive isotopes as tracers has opened up entirely new fields of research in chemistry, biology, and medicine.

The chlorophylls are the most important pigments in the plant world, and their investigation has been a lifelong task for me.

The atomic weight of an element is one of its most fundamental properties, and its accurate determination is of paramount importance to chemistry.

We were not looking for uranium fission, but for transuranic elements.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

The synthesis of macromolecules is a field of research that is still in its infancy, but it is a field that holds great promise for the future.

The synthesis of natural products is the highest goal of organic chemistry.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes it so a thing is not a poison.

The greatest discovery of all is to find that the world is not as we thought it was.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

In no other branch of science is the gap between the laboratory and the factory so wide as in chemistry.

The most important task of physics is to reduce the phenomena of nature to simple laws.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

My object has been to discover the law of the heating effect of the electric current.