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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry. -- Amy Hempel
In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc. -- Otto Wallach
I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute. -- George Andrew Olah
I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing. -- Martha Stewart
We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds. -- August Kekule
Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me. -- Rick Perry
Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs. -- Max Shulman
In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are introduced. -- Jean-Baptiste Dumas
I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are few occupations that give more satisfactions [sic] than masterly experimentation along the old lines of this highly specialised science. -- Lawrence Joseph Henderson
I am afraid I shall have to give up my trade; I am far too inert to keep up with organic chemistry, it is becoming too much for me, though I may boast of having contributed something to its development. The modern system of formulae is to me quite repulsive. -- Friedrich Wohler
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There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics. -- Robert Robinson
Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds. -- J. Norman Collie
I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first. -- Donald Cram
Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the most remarkable things, a monstrous and boundless thicket, with no way of escape, into which one may well dread to enter. -- Friedrich Wohler
The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed. -- Dixie Lee Ray
I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people. -- Peter Carey
Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature. -- Jean-Marie Lehn
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry. -- Johannes P. Muller
Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life. -- Justus von Liebig

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