Top 35 Quotes About Organic Chemistry
#1. Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.
Alan J. Heeger
#2. Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.
Max Shulman
#3. I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute.
George Andrew Olah
#4. There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.
Robert Robinson
#5. I am the mild-mannered organic chemistry teacher at the University of Oklahoma.
Donna Nelson
#6. We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.
August Kekule
#7. I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.
Donna Nelson
#8. In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds - that is the sole difference.
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
#9. I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing.
Martha Stewart
#10. Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.
J. Norman Collie
#11. In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
Otto Wallach
#12. I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
Amy Hempel
#13. In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are introduced.
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
#14. Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.
Rick Perry
#15. Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the most remarkable things, a monstrous and boundless thicket, with no way of escape, into which one may well dread to enter.
Friedrich Wohler
#16. I am afraid I shall have to give up my trade; I am far too inert to keep up with organic chemistry, it is becoming too much for me, though I may boast of having contributed something to its development. The modern system of formulae is to me quite repulsive.
Friedrich Wohler
#17. I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are few occupations that give more satisfactions [sic] than masterly experimentation along the old lines of this highly specialised science.
Lawrence Joseph Henderson
#18. I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see - and I don't.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#19. Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, then perhaps we shall find the truth
August Kekule
#20. The last days of this glacial winter are not yet past; we live in 'creation's dawn.' The morning stars still sing together, and the world, though made, is still being made and becoming more beautiful every day.
John Muir
#21. Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.
Mark McKinnon
#22. You have to make your own condensed notes. You learn from MAKING them. A lot of thinking goes into deciding what to include and exclude. You develop your own system of abbreviations and memory methods for the information.
Peter Rogers
#23. I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.
Peter Carey
#24. Get moving; the more ground you cover, the more people you see, the more successful you will be.
Brian Tracy
#25. I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.
Valentino Rossi
#26. If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Lou Holtz
#27. Today chemists can artificially make hundreds of thousands of organic compounds, most of which are not duplicated in nature.
George W. Stocking
#28. Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.
Jean-Marie Lehn
#29. Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.
Johannes P. Muller
#30. The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.
Dixie Lee Ray
#32. Be a physical chemist, an organic chemist, an analytical chemist, if you will; but above all be a Chemist.
Ira Remsen
#33. The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.
Edward Hoagland
#34. Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself ... Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe's invocation to 'make a commitment and the forces of the universe will conspire to make it happen' and chose the uncharted path.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#35. Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.
Justus Von Liebig
