chemistry quotes

Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.

- Michael Crichton
  The Andromeda Strain.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

- H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.

- George Bernard Shaw
  The Devil to DonJuan. Man and Superman, act 3.

He was a practical electrician but fond of whisky, a heavy, red-haired brute with irregular teeth.He doubted the existence of the Deity but accepted Carnot's cycle, and he had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
  'The Lord of the Dynamos'.