Keep in Mind to be Kind.

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.

Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

He had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself.

we've learned an interesting rule about fame. Those who seem desperate for it are the people that others least want to see.

To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.

Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.

Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.