1st Edition

Chemically Speaking A Dictionary of Quotations

Edited By C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither Copyright 2002
    604 Pages
    by CRC Press

    604 Pages
    by CRC Press

    In these days of ever-increasing specialization, it is important to gain a broad appreciation of scientific disciplines such as chemistry. With this in mind, Chemically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations contains the words and wisdom of several hundred scientists, writers, philosophers, poets, and academics. Some quotations are illustrated by amusing cartoons. The book is completed by a bibliography and indexes. The bibliography is useful for readers who want to search for more details about the quotations listed. The extensive author and subject indexes provide the perfect tool for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure.

    The largest compilation of published chemistry quotations available, this book is designed to be entertaining and informative. It presents quotations so that you can get a feel for the depth and breadth of chemistry, and the visions and styles of chemists past and present. Chemically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotation can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference.

    Preface

    Abstraction
    Accident
    Accuracy
    Acid
    Adsorption
    Aesthetic
    Affinity
    Age
    Air
    Alchemy
    Ambition
    Analogy
    Analysis
    Analyst
    Answer
    Apparatus
    Approximate
    Atomic Weight
    Atom
    Authority
    Average
    Balance
    Beauty
    Biochemistry
    Book
    Bubble
    Calculation
    Candle
    Cause and Effect
    Central Limit Theorem
    Chance
    Chaos
    Chemical
    Chemical Affinities
    Chemical Engineer
    Chemical Limericks
    Chemical Mnemonics
    Chemist
    Chemistry
    Chemistry and Life
    Chemistry and Medicine
    Chemistry Songs
    Classroom Emanations
    Commandments
    Common Sense
    Communication
    Compound
    Concept
    Confusion
    Cosmochemistry
    Creativity
    Criticism
    Crystallography
    Crystal
    Curiosity
    Data
    Definition
    Demonstration
    Difference
    Discovery
    Disorder
    Distill
    Dogma
    Electron
    Element
    Aluminum
    Antimony
    Argon
    Arsenic
    Carbon
    Gold
    Hydrogen
    Iodine
    Lead
    Mercury
    Nitrogen
    Oxygen
    Phosphorus
    Radium
    Sodium
    Sulphur
    Titanium
    Uranium
    Zinc
    Energy
    Energy State
    Enzyme
    Error
    Ethics
    Experience
    Experimenter
    Experiment
    Explain
    Exposition
    Fact
    Faith
    Fermentation
    Filter
    Fire
    Fluorochemistry
    Force
    Forecast
    Formula
    Fractal
    Gas
    Generality
    Genius
    Geochemistry
    Glassware
    God
    Graph
    Guess
    Heat
    History
    Hypothesis
    Idea
    Ignorance
    Imagination
    Impossible
    Improbable
    Independence
    Inference
    Information
    Inorganic
    Instrument
    Ion
    Knowledge
    Laboratory
    Language
    Law
    Learn
    Life
    Literature
    Little Willie
    Magic
    Magic
    Mathematics
    Matter
    Measurement
    Mechanics
    Metal
    Metaphor
    Metaphysics
    Method
    Microscope
    Model
    Molecule
    Motion
    Mystery
    Naivete
    Name
    Nature
    Nomenclature
    Notation
    Null Hypothesis
    Numbers
    Observation
    Occam's Razor
    Opinion
    Order
    Organic
    Outlier
    Paradox
    Periodic Law
    Philosophy
    Physical Science
    Plagerism
    Pollution
    Postulate
    Prayer
    Precision
    Prediction
    Probability
    Problem
    Progress
    Proposition
    Publication
    Purity
    Purpose
    Question
    Radical
    Random
    Reaction
    Reason
    Research
    Results
    Rust
    Salt
    Science
    Scientific
    Scientist
    Silver Trees
    Simplicity
    Solid
    Soluble
    Solution
    Speculation
    Statistical
    Statistician
    Statistics
    Symbol
    Symmetry
    Synthesis
    Teaching
    Terminology
    Thermodynamics
    Theory
    Theorist
    Thought
    Trial and Error
    Truth
    Uncertainty
    Understand
    Unexpected
    Unknown
    Vacuum
    Vision
    Volume
    Water
    Wisdom
    Word
    Work
    Writing
    X-Rays

    Permissions
    Bibliography
    Author Index
    Subject Index

    Biography

    Gaither, C.C.

    "…this is a very useful and often humorous book and, to my knowledge, the only book of quotations dedicated to the subject of chemistry. I recommend Chemically Speaking to anyone who wants to spice up an otherwise dull lecture (it's even got a few quotes for 'thermodynamics'!) or illustrate a point or two in an essay or paper."
    -Paul Board in Alchemist, January 2003

    "Making people laugh is always important, whether in an after-dinner speech to a gathering of chemists, or even in a lecture on chemical thermodynamics … Carl Gaither and Alma Cavazos-Gaither have evidently been assiduous over the years in putting in their thumb and pulling out a plum. And so for anyone with a speech to make, general essays to set, or with a bedside table, they have produced an indispensable collection, a wonderful bran-tub full of words."
    -David Knight in Chemistry and Industry, April 2003

    "Anyone who is interested in quotations cannot do without this book. It can also be recommended for those who take pleasure in original phraseology or in poetry with a scientific theme … . It makes easy and agreeable reading with its spacious and attractive layout, and there are a few cartoons that lighten the book in an unobtrusive way."
    -Hans-Jurgen Quadbeck-Seeger in Angewandte Chemie

    "I am pleased that, thanks to writing this review, I shall have a copy of this book. I know I will dip into it again and again, and always with profit. If you have the chance, I recommend you buy this book and profit from its wisdom as well."
    -John Nicholson in Education in Chemistry