"For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black vo…"

"I could tell innumerable other stories and they would all be true: all literally true, in the nature of the transitio…"

"The alchemical tradition assumes that every physical art or science is a body of knowledge which exists only because …"

"The Joker: You IDIOT! You made me. Remember? You dropped me into that vat of chemicals. That wasn't easy to get over,…"

"That conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and o…"

"Having reached this point in life, what chemist, facing the Periodic Table or the monumental indices of Beilstein or …"

"The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemis…"

"Modern warfare, we discovered, was to a far greater extent than ever before a conflict of chemists and manufacturers.…"

"The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and theref…"

"But we are still blind... blind and we don't have those tweezers we often dream of at night, the way a thirsty man dr…"