Chemistry famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.
-- Adam Sandler -
Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
-- Alan Bradley -
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.
-- Alfred Harker -
You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.
-- Ali Larter -
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.
-- Alton Brown -
I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
-- Amy Hempel -
I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them.
-- April Bowlby -
... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.
-- August Kekule -
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
-- Auguste Comte -
When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.
-- Bjork -
I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
-- Bjork -
You can tell if someone's into you. You can feel the chemistry.
-- Bradley Cooper -
The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
-- Charles Babbage -
You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to roll with it.
-- Chris Kilham -
Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.
-- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood -
Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
-- David E. Kelley -
The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.
-- Derek Barton -
The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.
-- Dixie Lee Ray -
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.
-- Donald Cram -
I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.
-- Dorothy Hodgkin -
I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.
-- Elaine Stritch -
[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.
-- Ernst Levy -
Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.
-- Faith Sullivan -
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
-- Francis Crick -
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
-- Frederick Soddy -
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
-- Geddy Lee -
At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.
-- Gemma Chan -
Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.
-- Gene Tierney -
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.
-- Gertrude B. Elion -
The Argentine tango is very special to me because it's full of sensuality. The chemistry between the man and woman is absolutely stunning.
-- Gilles Marini -
I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.
-- Grant Achatz -
When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.
-- Gregory Benford -
Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.
-- Greta Garbo -
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.
-- Helen Fisher -
You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person.
-- Hugh Dancy -
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences
-- Ilya Prigogine -
I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
-- Ina Garten -
We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach Chemistry.
-- Ira Remsen -
Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.
-- J. Norman Collie -
Well, I was always... I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics (well, maybe a couple of points off in mathematics), and that was in high school.
-- James Doohan -
In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.
-- James Rainwater -
There is extraordinary chemistry that exists in long-term relationships
-- Jay Conrad Levinson -
Why do we always fight?†she whispered. “You know why.†Yeah, she did. “It’s science.†“Combustible chemistry,†he agreed. “Dangerous.
-- Jill Shalvis -
When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it's easy and it's fun. You hardly call it work.
-- Joe Lando -
Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.
-- Johann Philipp Reis -
Misattributed to Johann Reiss. Probably by Peter Reiss. Die Chemie ist der unreinliche Teil der Physik. Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.
-- Johann Philipp Reis -
He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
-- John Aubrey -
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
-- John Cusack -
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
-- John Pople -
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
-- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac -
Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.
-- Joseph Silk -
In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.
-- Justus von Liebig -
How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
-- Karen Gillan -
But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.
-- Kenichi Fukui -
There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.
-- Kenny Rogers -
The chemistry among the four of us is very strong.
-- Kim Cattrall -
Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.
-- Krista Tippett -
There's a Universe Instrument, where we apply Hip-Hop to astronomy, and we flush out the chemistry of Hip-Hop. We also flushed out the astronomy, to see where Hip-Hop is read in the stars.
-- KRS-One -
We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry.
-- Lawrence Frank -
I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.
-- Linda Barnes -
Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.
-- Linus Pauling -
If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.
-- Magnus Pyke -
We all teach ... the chemistry of Lavoisier and Gay-Lussac.
-- Marcellin Berthelot -
At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.
-- Mark Gatiss -
I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
-- Martin Lewis Perl -
Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.
-- Matt Cameron -
Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.
-- Max Planck -
Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.
-- Max Shulman -
Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.
-- Michael Faraday -
There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.
-- Michael Parkinson -
Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.
-- Michael Parkinson -
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.
-- Michael Polanyi -
Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.
-- Michio Kaku -
The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.
-- Nick Hornby -
There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
-- Olivia de Havilland -
I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
-- Patricia Cornwell -
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.
-- Paul D. Boyer -
The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.
-- Paul Davies -
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation.
-- Paul Dirac -
The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.
-- Peter Hook -
Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
-- Rachel Bilson -
Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
-- Randy Schekman -
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
-- Reinout Willem van Bemmelen -
One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid by a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Pure experimentation? Perhaps not.
-- Richard Evans Schultes