#chemist

As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#alchemy #stars #age

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#best #chemistry #consistency #team #team sport

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#almost #chemistry #failed #i

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#books #century #chemistry #city #could

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful. ↗

— Ina Garten

#brown #chemistry #eats #food #good

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#blow #bulbs #chemistry #elementary #glass

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#by the time #i #studying #textbooks #time

It was that chemistry. And was the fact that he was president part of that chemistry? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. But it was - I was there because there was chemistry. I wasn't there because, oh, this is the president. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#chemistry #fact #i #know #maybe

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#courses #during #i #math #mcgill

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that. ↗

— Chris Martin

#chemistry #especially #handsome #hold #none