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“What do you call it when you end up right where you’re supposed to be?” Foster simply replies, “The perfect 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...”
“I call supplementing with electrolytes and metals: The Electrical Chemistry of the Human”
“Life is chemistry, not biology.”
“[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’. ‘It’s due to deformation of the crystal structure,’ she said, forgetting that I was five, and could not understand her...”
“Everything feels right with her. I can’t explain it. The world just stops. Everything freezes. It’s me. It’s her. It’s just us. Everything else, every molecule, including the oxygen we breathe, is ...”
“It was the first time! Just because there weren’t fireworks the first time doesn’t mean there will never be fireworks. We’re human; we’re adults; we teach each other; we communicate; fireworks don’...”
“That the nobility of Man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself the conquerer of matter, and that I had enrolled in chemistry because I wanted to maintain faithf...”
