Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither
Illustrated by Andrew Slocombe
Chemically Speaking is a book of quotations. It provides the largest collection of quotations pertaining to chemistry yet published ( quotations from authors). Some quotes are profound, others are wise, some are witty but none are frivolous. Here you will find quotations from the most famous to the unknown. You will find many of the `jewels' that exist but please forgive us if we've missed any personal favourites. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure, and you will soon enjoy discovering what others have said on topics ranging from actuaries to variability. This book will be a handy reference for the scientific reader and the wider public interested in who has said what on chemistry.
Readership: Professionals, teachers, students and general readers interested in chemistry. Chemists in a wide range of professions, physicists, biologists and individuals in the medical profession in particular will find the book a handy reference.
Contents: Abstraction. Accident. Accuracy. Acid. Adsorption. Aesthetic. Age. Air. Alchemy. Ambition. Analogy. Analysis. Analyst. Answer. Antimatter. Apparatus. Approximate. Atomic Weight. Atom. Authority. Average. Balance. Beauty. Biochemistry. Book. Bubble. Calculation. Candle. Cause And Effect. Central Limit Theorem. Chance. Chaos. Chemical. Chemical Affinities. Chemical Engineer. Chemist. Chemistry. Chemistry And Life. Chemistry And Medicine. Chemistry And Society. Coherence. Common Sense. Communication. Compound. Computing. Concept. Confusion. Cosmochemistry. Creativity. Criticism. Crystallography. Crystal. Curiosity. Data. Definition. Demonstration. Difference. Discovery. Disorder. Distilling. Dogma. Education. Electricity. Electron. Elements. Energy. Energy State. Error. Ethics. Experience. Experimenter. Experiment. Explain. Exposition. Fact. Faith. Fermentation. Fire. Fluorochemistry. Force. Forecast. Formula. Fractal. Gas. Generality. Genius. Geometry. Glassware. God. Goodness Of Fit. Graph. Guess. Gunpowder. Heat. Hypothesis. Idea. Ignorance. Imagination. Impossible. Improbable. Independence. Inference. Infinitesimals. Information. Inorganic. Instrument. Ion. Knowledge. Laboratory. Language. Law. Learn. Life. Literature. Logic. Logician. Magic. Mathematics. Matter. Measurement. Mechanics. Metal. Metaphor. Metaphysics. Method. Microscope. Model. Molecule. Motion. Mystery. Naivete. Name. Nature. Nomenclature. Notation. Null Hypothesis. Numbers. Observation. Occam's Razor. Opinion. Order. Organic. Outlier. Paradox. Periodic Law. Philosopher's Stone. Philosophy. Philosophy Of Science. Physical Science. Plagerism. Pollution. Postulate. Prayer. Precision. Prediction. Probability. Problem. Progress. Proposition. Publication. Purity. Question. Radical. Random. Rare Earth. Reaction. Reason. Recursion. Research. Results. Rust. Salt. Science. Scientific. Scientist. Silver Trees. Simplicity. Sodium Benzoate. Solid. Soluble. Solution. Statistical. Statistician. Statistics. Sulfate. Symbol. Symmetry. Synthesis. Teaching. Terminology. Theory. Theorist. Thermodynamics. Thought. Trial And Error. Truth. Uncertainty. Understand. Unexpected. Unknown. Vacuum. Values. Vectors. Vision. Volume. Water. Wisdom. Words. Work. Writing. X–Rays.
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Chemistry is the central subject in a liberal arts curriculum. It stands between the traditional humanities on the one hand and modern physics on the other hand.
Bent, H.A.
Chemical and Engineering News
March 12, 1984 (p. 44)
Chemistry, far more than physics, was the dominant science of the nineteenth century. This is so, in spite of the fact that the major physical discoveries found their development and application in the steam engine at the beginning and electric power at the end of the century. With chemistry, however, there was a far larger number of new processes that could be turned more immediately to profitable use, and this afforded directly and indirectly for the training and employment of an ever–increasing number of chemists. Indeed from the beginning of the century and increasingly till its end the chemists were the most numerous of the newly differentiated groups of scientists.
Bernal, J.D.
Science and Industry in the Nineteenth Century (pp. 70–72)
...the old chemistry was largely a matter of memory, a set of cookery recipes that had, for no apparent reason but to worry the student, to be learnt by heart.
Bernal, J.D.
In H.N. Parton
Science is Human
Science and the Liberal Arts (p. 17)
Chemistry creates its objects.
Berthelot, Marcelin
In Jean–Marie Lehn
Supramolecular Chemistry (p. 206)
I praise God who hath been so bountiful to me as to call me to the practise of Chymistry, out of the dregs of other Professions: Since Chymistry hath principles not drawn from fallacious reasonings, but such as are known by nature, & conspicuoul by fire; and she prepareth the Intellect to penetrate, not the upper deck or surface of things, but the deep hold, the concentrick and hidden things of nature, and maketh an investigation into the America of nature….
Biggs, Noah
The Vanity of the Craft of Physick (p. 57)
Chemistry is not yet a science. We are very far from the knowledge of first principles. We should avoid every thing that has the pretensions of a full system. The whole of chemical science should, as yet, be analytical, like Newton's Optics, in the form of a general law, at the very end of our induction, as the reward of our labour.
Black, Joseph
Lecture on the Elements of Chemistry
Volume I (p. 547)
Chemistry is an art which teaches the manner of performing certain physical operations, whereby bodies cognizable to the senses, or capable of being rendered cognizable, and of being contained in vessels, are so changed by means of proper instruments, as to produce certain determined effects and at the same time discover the causes thereof; for the service of various arts.
Boerhaave, Herman
Elements of Chemistry (p. 19)
But if anyone shall still retain a doubt of the worth and abilities of chymistry, to reward those who cultivate it: let him consider the practice and procedure of the happiest philosopher the world ever yet cou’d boast, the great Sir Isaac Newton: who, when he demonstrates the laws, the actions, and the powers of bodies, from a consideration of their effects, always produces chymical experiments for his vouchers; and when, to solve other phenomena, he makes use of these powers, his refuge is to chymistry.
Boerhaave, Herman
In Arnold Thackray
Atoms and Power
Chapter 2 (p. 8)
For I observed, that of late Chymistry begins, as indeed it deserves, to be cultivated by Learned Men who before dispis’d it, and to be pretended to by many who never cultivated, that they may be thought not to ignore it…
Boyle, Robert
The Sceptical Chymist
A Preface Introductory (p. A2)
I say in like manner, the art of Chimistrie is in it selfe the most noble instrument of naturall knowledges; but through the ignoraunce and impietie, partly of those that most audaciously professe it without skill and partly of them that impudently condemne that they knowe not, it is of all others most basely despised and scornfully rejected.
Bredwell, Stephen
In John Gerarde
The Herbal or General Historie of Plantes
Prefatory letter
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