Frederick Soddy

1877–1956 · English radiochemist

Topics: learning, science

• The path hewn by knowledge through ignorance points two ways in the direction of the absolute unattainable truth. Man has always tended to confound these two classes of the ultimately unknowable.

  — Frederick Soddy

• Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

  — Frederick Soddy