Arthur Miller Quotes

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

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

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.

What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.

You don't buy chemistry, nor do you manufacture it, it is what it is.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain primitive or simple, or perfectly unmingled bodies; which not being made of any other bodies, or of one another, are the ingredients of which all those called perfectly mixt bodies are immediately compounded, and into which they are ultimately resolved: now whether there be any such body to be constantly met with in all, and each, of those that are said to be elemented bodies, is the thing I now question.

Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

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

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.

I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.

If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.

The main thread of my work is structure property relations and materials. If you have certain atoms, why do they attract each other? Why do they make compounds? Why do they do what they do?

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.

I'm not a machine.

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

Chemistry is the science of atoms. Elaborating on Democritus' idea, chemists learn how atoms stick or don't stick together, thus forming molecules.