August Kekule Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.”
-- August Kekule

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“The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an hypothesis adapted to the explanation of chemical phenomena... whether a further development of the atomic hypothesis promises to advance our knowledge of the mechanism of chemical phenomena... I rather expect that we shall some day find, for what we now call atoms, a mathematico-mechanical explanation, which will render an account of atomic weight, of atomicity, and of numerous other properties of the so-called atoms.”
-- August Kekule

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“We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds.”
-- August Kekule

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“The separate atoms of a molecule are not connected all with all, or all with one, but, on the contrary, each one is connected only with one or with a few neighbouring atoms, just as in a chain link is connected with link.”
-- August Kekule

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“Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.”
-- August Kekule

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“Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equivalent to 4 At.H.”
-- August Kekule

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“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011

“Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.114, Granta Books

“Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I`m stronger.”

“The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.”

“It is not truth that matters, but victory.”

“I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.”

Source : "Fictional character: Albert Rosenfeld". "Twin Peaks". Season 1, Episode 4, April 26, 1990.

“A true gentleman never leaves his lady.”

Source : "Goodbye Mr Juventus" by Luca Cetta, www.football-italia.net. May 23, 2012.

“Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alex Salmond from Mar 03, 2015

“It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.”

“Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.”