Johann Joachim Becher - The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane i

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

- Johann Joachim Becher

source: "Physica subterranea". Book by Johann Joachim Becher, 1669.

topic: Change, Kings, Flames, Vapor, Chemist, Persian