Anton Chekhov Quotes
To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.
Chekhov, Anton. Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends. Translated by Constance Garnett, Macmillan, 1920, p. 55.
At the time few chemists or physicists were involved with biological and medical research, nor did the physicians and biologists of the day have much background or understanding of physics or chemistry. Abel was right on, and today the best medical and biological researchers have had extensive physics and chemistry research and much of the research is being conducted by multidisciplinary teams of scientists.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."