General Chemistry Quotes

#1. I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

Roald Hoffmann

#2. It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#3. You are the best of us. We are the best of you. What becomes of us will, inevitably, become of you. That is why you should care. That is why I write.
I end this chapter, then, with broken silence, broken vows, broken trust. Our secrets are yours now; I pray you use them well.

Donna Boyd

#4. Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.

Peggy Guggenheim

#5. Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

#6. There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

David Byrne

#7. Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Wesley Morris

#8. the people grew tired of this little gossip. Fathers looked at their children and thought: "They are not learning much. What will make them brave and wise? What will teach them to love their country and old Norway? Will not the stories of battles, of brave deeds, of mighty men, do this?

Jennie Hall

#9. When people ask me about my hometown, I tell them it was called after a wolf before it was partially tamed and settled.

Jesmyn Ward

#10. The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.

William Ramsay

#11. Cookie for you. Cookie for me.

J. Lynn

#12. Sometimes life hands us a mirror and dares us to take a look.

L.M. Fields

#13. A heart sacrifice is not a formula that can be mastered. It is a decision that is intrinsically tied to the personal relationship between us and our God.

Carol Kent

#14. Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.

Richard Smalley

#15. Much remains to be learned about stratospheric chemistry - and, in more general terms, about the physics and chemistry of the global atmosphere.

Mario J. Molina

#16. I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.

Anne Waldman

#17. Being alone in a room full of people who never really looked at you didn't bother me. Or at least that's what I told myself.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#18. Listen to the whisperings of the Spirit, the gift of revelation to which you are entitled.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#19. It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.

Henri Poincare