3 Quotes by Ira Remsen

Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should be taken into a laboratory. The second lesson was that he who is to apply scientific thought and method to industrial problems must have a thorough knowledge of the sciences. The world learned the first lesson more readily than it learned the second.

Be a physical chemist, an organic chemist, an analytical chemist, if you will; but above all be a Chemist.

Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.