Robert Bunsen Quotes & Sayings

The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it cost me the unbelievable privations and exertions which we suffer here. — Robert Bunsen

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all. — Robert Bunsen

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. — Robert Bunsen

Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. — Robert Bunsen

At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchhoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchhoff has made a totally unexpected discovery, inasmuch as he has found out the cause for the dark lines in the solar spectrum and can produce these lines artificially intensified both in the solar spectrum and in the continuous spectrum of a flame, their position being identical with that of Fraunhofer's lines. Hence the path is opened for the determination of the chemical composition of the Sun and the fixed stars. — Robert Bunsen