Yves Chauvin Quotes

The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.

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

Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

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

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

Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

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.

You have to look at how chemistry develops.

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

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

I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.

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.

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

I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction crosses my mind that these things hang together under one law & that the more haste we make onwards each in his own path the sooner we shall arrive, and meet each other, at that state of knowledge of natural causes from which all varieties of effects may be understood & enjoyed.

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.

Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the first and most important thing is to determine its detailed molecular structure.

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

As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.