Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject
Peter Atkins
I am no great chemist; I am no great person. I have accomplished no great deeds. I am only a trail nlazer. I have tried to point the way. Others, the great of earth, shall probably come along, read these signs, and do the work. I am the trail blazer
George Washington Carver
The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.
Clemens Winkler
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called Chemistry.
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.
