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 Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery, ina…

- 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

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classi…

- Robert Bunsen

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 th…

- Robert Bunsen