Strain Chemistry/kinds of Strain

Famous quotes containing the words strain, chemistry and/or kinds:

    “You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!”
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 23:24.

    “Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested to me that there was something to be seen if one had eyes. It made a believer of me more than before. I believed that the woods were not tenantless, but choke-full of honest spirits as good as myself any day,—not an empty chamber, in which chemistry was left to work alone, but an inhabited house,—and for a few moments I enjoyed fellowship with them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)