Chemical Reactions Quotes

• Every chemical reaction has a transition state.

  Derek Barton

  Transition, Chemicals, States

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• The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.

  Clemens Winkler

  Science, Actors, Elements

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• Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

  Michael Behe

  Tissues, Structure, Chemicals

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• I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Path, Chemicals, Reactions

  Kenichi Fukui (1997). “Frontier Orbitals and Reaction Paths: Selected Papers of Kenichi Fukui”, p.152, World Scientific

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• But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Chemistry, Chemicals, Theory

  Kenichi Fukui (1997). “Frontier Orbitals and Reaction Paths: Selected Papers of Kenichi Fukui”, p.151, World Scientific

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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• The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Development, Chemicals, Distinction

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• The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Views, Development, Creation

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• If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

  Kris Carr

  Sweet, Stress, Sadness

  "Celebrating a Decade Thriving With Cancer" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Typical, Chemicals, Cases

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• The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ambition, Men, Animal

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions at a surface.

  Walter Houser Brattain

  Science, Interesting, Example

  "Physics: 1942-1962". Book by Nobel Foundation, 1964.

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• Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

  Kris Carr

  Sweet, Dark, Anxiety

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• Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Years

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• Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.

  Janine Benyus

  Water, Earth, Chemicals

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• Science tells you love is just a chemical reaction in the brain,
  Let me be your Bunsen burner baby, let me be your naked flame!

  John Otway

  Baby, Love Is, Flames

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• It is a simple chemical reaction that has nothing to do with fusion.

  Nathan Lewis

  Simple, Fusion, Cold

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• A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products.

  Wolfgang Ostwald

  Science, Nomenclature, Finals

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• So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific proteins, referred to as enzymes, that it seems fairly safe to assume that all are of this nature and that the proteins are the necessary basis for carrying out the processes that we call life.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Nature, Science, Enzymes

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• The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Narrative, Cold, Chemicals

  "My Life's Sentences". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 17, 2012.

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• There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.

  Henry Reed

  Philosophy, Medicine, Listening

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• At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.

  Lynne McTaggart

  People, Deep Thought, Pulse

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• When we meet an Imago match, that chemical reaction occurs, and love ignites. All other bets, all other ideas about what we want in a mate, are off. We feel alive and whole, confident that we have met the person who will make everything all right.

  Harville Hendrix

  Ideas, And Love, Alive

  Harville Hendrix (1993). “Keeping the Love You Find”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is-next to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio-chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Hate

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.175, Penguin

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• Love is a chemical reaction, but it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without a soul, it too cannot be fully understood or defined by science. Love is the most powerful form of energy, but science cannot decipher its elements. Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love, but even the most advanced physician cannot prescribe it as medicine.

  Suzy Kassem

  Powerful, Love Is, Medicine

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