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Johann Joachim Becher
(6 May 1635 - Oct 1682)
German chemist, physician and adventurer.
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Science Quotes by Johann Joachim Becher (1)
The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.
— Johann Joachim Becher
Physica subterranea (1667). Quoted in R. Oesper, The Human Side of Scientists (1973), 11.
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