William Crookes Quotes

I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.

Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the lab, one step at a time, from extremely simple building blocks.

As early as 1912, we worked on the problem of the hydrogenation of organic substances with the aid of highly compressed hydrogen.

Chemistry was my college interest. Cooking is about chemistry.

Chemistry happens naturally, and there's not really a lot you can do intentionally to create it.

I was in AP chemistry in high school, and I really liked it.

My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.

When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.

Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

It's all about chemistry. Talent alone won't get it done.

One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to accomplish the most complicated and delicate of tasks. Many organic chemists viewing crystal structures of enzyme systems or nucleic acids and knowing the marvels of specificity of the immune systems must dream of designing and synthesizing simpler organic compounds that imitate working features of these naturally occurring compounds.

We all teach ... the chemistry of Lavoisier and Gay-Lussac.

My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.

I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.