## 3. CHEMISTRY

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- 3. chemistry - general
- 3.1 chemistry poetry
- 3.2 chemistry quotes
- 3.3 chemical puns
- 3.4 in the lab
- 3.5 chemical dictionary
- 3.6 chemists
- 3.7 elements
- 3.8 H20

### 3.2 CHEMISTRY QUOTES

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    Special Category: Arthur C. Clarke
    From: samhobbs@mindspring.com (Sam Hobbs)

    ... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be
    physicists.
    --- Arthur C. Clarke & Michael Kube-McDowell
    in The Trigger, 1999, p. 410 (paperback edition)
    Note: Clarke was a chemist.

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    Special Category: Auguste Comte
    "Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical
    questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the
    spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a
    prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost
    impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that
    science."

     -- Auguste Comte, Cours de philosophie positive, 1830

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    Special Category: Richard Smalley
            From: "Brenda L. Carroll" <blcarrol@ehc.edu>
    BUCKY BALL QUOTATIONS:
    "If it ain't tubes, we don't do it."
                    -Richard Smalley, ACS Fullerene Satelite-Link Talk

    "We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a
    drum, and go fishing with it."
                    -Richard Smalley, more of the same...

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    Special Category: Robert Curl
    From: "Brenda L. Carroll" <blcarrol@ehc.edu>
    "Chemistry is all about getting lucky..."
                    -Robert Curl

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    From: kab4242@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Kevin Anthony Boudreaux)

    It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked
    in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue.
    --quoted in Robert L. Weber, Science With a Smile (1992)

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    From: scutchen@phoenix.phoenix.net (Steve Cutchen)

    Stephen Wright:
    (Referring to a glass of water:) I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one
    part O. I don't trust anybody!

    They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning...(picks up his
    glass of water from the stool)...I like to live on the edge...

    I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it.

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    From:         "Christopher Brown" <cbrown@chem1.chem.dal.ca>
    Chemists are, on the whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They don't make
    quite the same wonderful mistakes, and much what they do is an art, related
    to cooking, instead of a true science. They have their moments, and their
    sources of legitimate pride. They don't split atoms, as the physicists do.
    They join them together, and a very praiseworthy activity that is.
                Anthony Standen, Science is a sacred cow (1958).

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#### Subsections

- 3. chemistry - general
- 3.1 chemistry poetry
- 3.2 chemistry quotes
- 3.3 chemical puns
- 3.4 in the lab
- 3.5 chemical dictionary
- 3.6 chemists
- 3.7 elements
- 3.8 H20

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