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While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

— Antoine Lavoisier

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.

— Alfred Hershey

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

— Kurt Vonnegut

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

— Kenichi Fukui

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

— Nick Nolte

I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.

— Alfred Werner

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

— Grant Achatz

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

— Yusuf Hamied

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

— Edward Gibbon

✗Opposing Perspectives

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

— C. S. Forester