"Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to molecular hexagons and carbon-chains."
— Venus

January 1, 1970

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Kathleen Jessie Raine, "The Human Form Divine", from Collected Poems (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2001), p. 86; reported in Carl C. Gaither, Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (Springer, 2012), p. 394