Interesting Quotes

"The chymists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane 
impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, 
poison and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly 
that may I die if I would change places with the Persian King."
--Johann Becher, 17th century


"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has 
printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top."
--English Professor, Ohio University


Mathematicians are the least expensive researchers to support. All they need 
are pencils, paper, and a wastebasket - and when they turn philosopher, they 
don't even need the wastebasket!
--Adapted from the Henry Cate III Life Collection


A mosquito was heard to complain
That a chemist had poisoned his brain
The cause of his sorrow
Was para-dichloro-
Diphenyltrichloroethane


Charlie was a chemist
But Charlie is no more
What Charlie thought was H2O
Was H2SO4


People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept 
in a room with a single mosquito.


If you're not a part of the solution, you're a part of the precipitate.
--Steven Wright