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May 6
"Chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost maniacal
impulse to seek their pleasures amongst smoke and vapour, soot and flames,
poisons and poverty, yet amongst all these evils I seem to live so sweetly
that I would rather die than change places with the King of Persia."
-- Johann Joachim Becher, Physica subterranea (1667)
Source: Paul Strathern, "Mendelejevs droom" (translation of: Mendelejevs
dream)
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May 10 September 15 All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons. -- John Desmond Baernal (Irish physicist, 1901-1971) in a Lecture at Birkbeck college, University of London, 1960.
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August 29
A tidy laboratory means a lazy chemist.
-- Ją„«ns Jacob Berzelius (Swedish chemist,1779-1848)
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Special Category: Arthur C. Clarke From: samhobbs#NoSpam.mindspring.com (Sam Hobbs) ... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists. --- Arthur C. Clarke & Michael Kube-McDowell in The Trigger, 1999, p. 410 (paperback edition)
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Februari 17 September 5 Special Category: Auguste Comte "Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science." -- Auguste Comte, Cours de philosophie positive, 1830
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October 28
Special Category: Richard Smalley
From: "Brenda L. Carroll" <blcarrol#NoSpam.ehc.edu>
BUCKY BALL QUOTATIONS:
"If it ain't tubes, we don't do it."
-Richard Smalley, ACS Fullerene Satelite-Link Talk
"We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a
drum, and go fishing with it."
-Richard Smalley, more of the same...
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Special Category: Robert Curl
From: "Brenda L. Carroll" <blcarrol#NoSpam.ehc.edu>
"Chemistry is all about getting lucky..."
-Robert Curl
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From: kab4242#NoSpam.utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Kevin Anthony Boudreaux) It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue. --quoted in Robert L. Weber, Science With a Smile (1992)
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From: scutchen#NoSpam.phoenix.phoenix.net (Steve Cutchen) Stephen Wright: (Referring to a glass of water:) I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody! They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning...(picks up his glass of water from the stool)...I like to live on the edge... I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it.
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From: "Christopher Brown" <cbrown#NoSpam.chem1.chem.dal.ca>
Chemists are, on the whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They don't make
quite the same wonderful mistakes, and much what they do is an art, related
to cooking, instead of a true science. They have their moments, and their
sources of legitimate pride. They don't split atoms, as the physicists do.
They join them together, and a very praiseworthy activity that is.
Anthony Standen, Science is a sacred cow (1958).
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