William Ramsay famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

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