Occupation: Chemist Birth: October 21, 1833 Death: December 10, 1896
Lying is the greatest of all sins..
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked..
Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes fr….
Contentment is the only real wealth..
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results..
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected..
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge..
My home is where I work, and I work everywhere..
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace..
For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use..
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render ….
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one ….
Justice is to be found only in the imagination..
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age..
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied..
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness..
I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find i….
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz..
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly de….
The truthful man is usually a liar..
The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attack….