Quotes About Organic Compounds

#1. Today chemists can artificially make hundreds of thousands of organic compounds, most of which are not duplicated in nature.

George W. Stocking

#2. Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

Stephen Jay Gould

#3. Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

Victor Grignard

#4. Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

Timothy Keller

#5. You really are here. (Thanatos)
Hair of the dog, baby. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil. Tonight, it's your turn. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. February 27: Pre-production work begins on Bus Stop.

Carl Rollyson

#7. Your life is a perfect reflection of your mental and emotional habits. Building a better life is as simple as building better habits.

Indigo Ocean

#8. Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.

Clarence Thomas

#9. I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

Harold Prince

#10. The Lost Weekend was the only book, out of five books, that I wrote sober, without stimulus or sedative.

Blake Bailey

#11. With the exception of autotrophic bacteria, the green, or chlorophyll-bearing, plants are the only living forms on this planet capable of synthesizing organic matter out of inorganic elements and simple compounds.

Selman Waksman

#12. We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.

August Kekule

#13. The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should've arrested him for it.

Junot Diaz

#14. In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds - that is the sole difference.

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

#15. Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.

J. Norman Collie

#16. 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

#17. I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.

Eddie Bane

#18. In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.

Bernie Sanders

#19. A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

Eric Hoffer

#20. The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

Victor Grignard

#21. The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between different types of organoboron compounds and various organic electrophiles including halides or triflates in the presence of a base provides a powerful and general methodology for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds.

Akira Suzuki

#22. I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.

Robin Quivers

#23. Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.

Elias James Corey

#24. Yeah, I'm a physical kind of guy. I've always liked being physical. It takes a stuntman to really say, 'Look, we don't want you to do this. No, no, I'm serious, you're not going to do this' to get me not to do my stuff.

Dominic Purcell