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I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

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Science is the real moral school; she teaches man the love and respect for the truth, without which all hope is chimerical.

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Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage, God will come down to earth with His big ring of keys and will say to humanity, 'Gentlemen, it is closing time.'

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The word truth can not be used outside of science without a misuse of terms.

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We all teach...the chemistry of Lavoisier and Gay-Lussac.

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To my age first of all. Your sympathy makes it shine like the last burst of light from a lamp on the point of being extinguished in eternal night! The respect that humanity pays to the aged is the expression of the binding force that unites the present generations with those that have preceded us, and with those that are to follow.

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The domain in which chemical synthesis exercises its creative power is vaster than that of nature herself.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Marcellin Berthelot

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Born: October 25, 1827
Died: March 18, 1907 (aged 79)
Bio: Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot was a French chemist and politician noted for the Thomsen-Berthelot principle of thermochemistry.

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