Robert Bunsen Quotes

• The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it cost me the unbelievable privations and exertions which we suffer here.

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  Beautiful   Regret   Suffering  

  1499

• A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

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  Science   Physicist   Chemist  

  2097

• Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.

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  Beautiful   Hard Work   Acquisition  

  5163

• You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

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  Elements   Regularity   Periodic Table  

  4493

• At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery, inasmuch as he has found out the cause for the dark lines in the solar spectrum and can produce these lines artificially intensified both in the solar spectrum and in the continuous spectrum of a flame, their position being identical with that of Fraunhofer's lines. Hence the path is opened for the determination of the chemical composition of the Sun and the fixed stars.

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  Determination   Stars   Sleep  

  4325

• You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

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  Science   Regularity   Stock Exchange  

  934

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