Famous Quotes / Johann Becher
Johann Becher: "The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty, yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly, that may I die if I would change places with the Persian King."
Almost | Among | Change | Chemists |
Class | Evils | Flame | Impelled |
Impulse | Insane | King | Live |
Mortals | Persian | Places | Pleasure |
Poisons | Poverty | Seek | Seem |
Smoke | Soot | Strange | Sweetly |
These | Vapor |