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Chemistry Quotes
Chemistry Quotes
Chemistry is all about getting lucky
- Robert Curl
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)
Chemistry is a trade for people without enough
imagination to be physicists.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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
