Quotes About Berthelot

#1. My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.

Paul Sabatier

#2. I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

Tony Hawk

#3. I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

Marcellin Berthelot

#4. Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage, God will come down to earth with His big ring of keys and will say to humanity, 'Gentlemen, it is closing time.'

Marcellin Berthelot

#5. I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.

John Lennon

#6. Acting is not just doing! It is who you are being and what you are experiencing that causes you to do - to need to act. Then doing turns arounds and changes your being. But doing without being is lifeless.

Jason Bennett

#7. What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

John Adams

#8. There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

Beryl Bainbridge

#9. The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

#10. We all teach ... the chemistry of Lavoisier and Gay-Lussac.

Marcellin Berthelot