Today I've seen one of the most beautiful texts about chemistry, or better, about chemists. And as a chemist, I must show it to those that it may interest. Hope you enjoy.

"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 I may die if I would change places with the Persian king."

Johann Joachim Becker (1635-1682)