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“[photography]... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way.”
“My mother showed me that when tin or zinc was bent it uttered a special cry. Its due to deformation of the crystal structure, she said, forgetting that I was five, and could not understand her - an...”
“Everything feels right with her. I cant explain it. The world just stops. Everything freezes. Its me. Its her. Its just us. Everything else, every molecule, including the oxygen we breathe, is only...”
“You were sizzling, like sausages in a frying pan.”
“Let me tell you, you either have chemistry or you don't, and you better have it, or it's like kissing some relative. But chemistry, listen to me, you got to be careful. Chemistry is like those perf...”
“The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat.1. The energy of the universe is constant.2. The entropy of the universe tends...”
“No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.”
“It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which were unknown to the ancients, and have made suc...”
“When he put the old-fashioned mechanical toy on her palm, she stopped breathing. It was a tiny representation of an atom, complete with colored ball bearings standing in for neutrons, protons, and ...”
“It was the first time! Just because there werent fireworks the first time doesnt mean there will never be fireworks. Were human; were adults; we teach each other; we communicate; fireworks dont jus...”
“I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nucle...”
“What do you call it when you end up right where youre supposed to be? Foster simply replies, The perfect chemistry.”
“I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation”
“Life is chemistry, not biology.”
“I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.[Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.]”
“We owe our liberation to chemistry," he went on. "For all perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions on the surface of the brain cells. Seeing me, you actually experience a di...”
“Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.”
“Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave a...”
“I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely the same way, as Mrs. Mullet had taught me, that an eggshell clarifies the consomm or the coffee, w...”
“You know, rust is just oxidation. The same chemical process as fire. Oxygen interacts with steel, electrons drift from one element to the other. So really, rust is a slow fire. Isn't that weird? Wa...”
