Bunsen Quotes

#1. At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!

John Vane

#2. Something that chemistry supplies are very good for." When he gave me an odd look, I unwrapped a Bunsen burner and twirled it in the light. "Making bombs.

Lia Habel

#3. The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

William Hazlitt

#4. We don't really have to make fun of religion - it makes fun of itself.

Bill Maher

#5. A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

Robert Bunsen

#6. Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'

Simon Cowell

#7. Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

Johnny Galecki

#8. I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show.

Derek Blasberg

#9. Describing Robert Bunsen:
As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.

Henry Enfield Roscoe

#10. What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Jill Clayburgh

#11. I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.

Jim Sturgess

#12. The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it cost me the unbelievable privations and exertions which we suffer here.

Robert Bunsen

#13. I thought we were going to take a 20-mule team out to the Grand Canyon and get a Bunsen burner and a bow and arrow, and whatever you can catch you cook. And it's gotta be gourmet and it better look good.

The Creators Of Top Chef

#14. Hell on earth: A crowded room with no books, no music and not a soul around that understands you.

Brooke Hampton

#15. Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while the parents reside there under the protection of the government, and owing a temporary allegiance thereto, are subjects by birth.

St. George Tucker

#16. Science tells you love is just a chemical reaction in the brain,
Let me be your Bunsen burner baby, let me be your naked flame!

John Otway

#17. You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

Robert Bunsen

#18. If there is anything more delicious than a sausage roasted over an open Bunsen burner, I can't image what it might be
Porcelain and I tore into our food like cannibals after a missionary famine.

Alan Bradley

#19. Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.

Robert Bunsen

#20. And by Bunsen burner I meant, literally, my Bunsen burner. Not the figurative Bunsen burner in my pants.

Penny Reid

#21. Buttercups and daisies,
Oh, the pretty flowers;
Coming ere the spring time,
To tell of sunny hours.
When the trees are leafless;
When the fields are bare;
Buttercups and daisies
Spring up here and there.

Mary Howitt

#22. First I would like to wash Bunsen, and then I would like to kiss him because he is such a charming man.

(Remark by the wife of Emil Fischer, upon meeting Bunsen for the first time, perhaps noticing a lasting chemical odour from his work.)

Agnes Fischer

#23. Um ... milk. Yes, I believe I do have milk. In the fridge, Anyn replied, remarkably cordial for someone who'd just been cock-blocked by Dr. Bunsen Honeydew.

Nicole Peeler