We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.
Democritus, c. 460 – c. 370 BC
Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.
Sir William Crookes, 1832 to 1919
The physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from our midst, root and branch, this physical element and return to our laboratories.
Henry Edward Armstrong, 1848 to 1937
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
Michael Faraday, 1791 to 1867
A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.
Justus von Liebig, 1803 to 1873
Trial by combat of wits in disputations has no attraction for the seeker after truth; to him, the appeal to experiment is the last and only test of the merit of an opinion, conjecture, or hypotheses.
Joseph Mellor, 1869 to 1938
Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
Linus Pauling, 1901 to 1994
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