• Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.

    Ira Remsen: Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.
    "The Life of Ira Remsen" by F.H. Getmen, (pp. 70-71), 1940.