The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry. Liebig's advice to Kekulé.

Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.

The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.

Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted.

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

Life loses its meaning when you forget your purpose.

Christmas is a state of mind.

As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say generalize, but definitely stronger with our choices.

The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

I'm a good actress. That's why you know me as likable.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Being condemned by fate to perpetual togetherness, we better make that shared fate into our shared, consciously and gladly embraced, destiny.