William Ramsay quotes
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“The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.”
-- William RamsaySource : William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”
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“The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.”
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“Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.”
-- William RamsaySource : William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”
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“Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.”
-- William RamsaySource : William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”
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“If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.”
-- William Ramsay
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“A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.”
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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“Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!”
Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.240, Delacorte Press
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Source : Alfred Harker (2011). “The Natural History of Igneous Rocks”, p.282, Cambridge University Press
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“I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.”
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