Pharmacist

🇬🇧Frederick_Soddy

Science

1877–1956

"Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it."

🇩🇪Paracelsus

Philosophy

1493–1541

"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; but the dose makes it clear that a thing is not a poison."

🇺🇸Leslie Z. Benet

Science

b. 1937

"Even though it’s applied science we’re dealin’ with, it still is – science!"

🇫🇷Nostradamus

Literature

1503–1566

"General information, translations and illustrated tour of Nostradamus's Provence"

Hans Christian Ørsted

Science

1777–1851

"The agreement of this law with nature will be better seen by the repetition of experiments than by a long explanation."

🇬🇧Charles Stross

Literature

b. 1964

"The trouble is, you can ignore history—but history won’t necessarily ignore you."

🇺🇸Hubert Humphrey

Politics

Liberalism

1911–1978

"I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at college."

🇺🇸Gertrude B. Elion

Science

1918–1999

"I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much."

🇩🇪Gregor Strasser

Politics

1892–1934

"We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism."

Al-Biruni

Mathematics

973–1050

"A Persian by birth, Biruni produced his writings in Arabic, though he knew, besides Persian, no less than four other languages."

Georg Trakl

Literature

Expressionism

1887–1914

"The black snow that runs from the rooftops;"

🇸🇪Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Science

1779–1848

"The devil may write textbooks of chemistry, for every few years the whole thing changes."