Chemistry Quotes - Page 10

• A new study shows that American students are becoming less proficient in science, and if the trend continues, we will become a nation that's science and chemistry illiterate. And you thought a lot of meth labs are blowing up now?

  Jay Leno

  Trends, Labs, Becoming

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• I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.

  Red Auerbach

  Player, Personality, Teammate

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• Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Zero, Philosophy

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.117, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in known chemistry for the belief that long sequences of reactions can organize spontaneously -- and every reason to believe that they cannot. The problem of achieving sufficient specificity, whether in aqueous solution or on the surface of a mineral, is so severe that the chance of closing a cycle of reactions as complex as the reverse citric acid cycle, for example, is negligible.

  Leslie Orgel

  Believe, Origin Of Life, Agreement

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• If we do not take this road of dialogue and understanding then I fear for the next generation. There are enough people preaching hatred, which encourages violence. We are living in times when technology, biology and chemistry have created the possibility of killing in large numbers. And, unfortunately, the cruelty and killing are often justified through a distorted interpretation of religion.

  Akbar S. Ahmed

  Hate, Technology, Numbers

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• The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.

  Paul Davies

  Doe, Substance, Narrative

  "The secret of life won't be cooked up in a chemistry lab" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2013.

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• When you encourage someone, it literally changes their brain chemistry to be able to perform... sends fuel to the brain.

  Henry Cloud

  Brain, Fuel, Able

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• The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Powerful, Race, Intellectual

  "Cosmos". Book by H.G. Bohn, v2, p. 589,595, 1860.

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• I think it's a dance that people want to see. It's a chemistry that people want to see. In the same way that people don't want to see a perfect hero with no flaws who can handle anything, people don't want to see a perfect relationship. There's nothing interesting about that. People want to see you fail.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system

  Charles A. Beard

  Civilization, Psychology, Directors

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• I would say if a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. But to speak of the craft itself, I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer. Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Believe, Writing

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• What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  People, Important, Environment

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• Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. Its not necessarily about falling in love.

  Seamus Dever

  Falling In Love, Romance, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Real, Real Life, Film

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• Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Racism, Political

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.148, Penguin

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• See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood. The composition of life. It's all there. Hate as well. We approach the mystery of life, but it's impossible to understand the mystery of hate. The kind of hate that causes people not only to kill, but to want to erase you from the census of births. I have to concentrate on that mystery. Read everything there is. It has to be in a drop of blood. It has to have its chemistry.

  Manuel Rivas

  Hate, Blood, People

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• Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Eggs, Cooking, Secret

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• There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are discontent or content and they are not. Whatever they are, we are not and vice versa. Two trains going in different directions that pass for a few powerful moments at full speed, blasting noise and wind but then they are gone. Whatever serious chemistry might have been possible if, isn’t.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Powerful, Fall, Emotional

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• I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Football, Team, Thinking

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• Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Heart, Knowing, Seeing

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• My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Wish, Physics, Sociology

  Vilfredo Pareto (1963). “The Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology”

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• Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

  Bruce Campbell

  Tests, Sometimes, Failing

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• Sometimes I overtinker, which is something wrong with my brain chemistry. But in figuring out why I do that, maybe I'll make myself a better person. I doubt it.

  John Goodman

  Doubt, Brain, Sometimes

  "John Goodman: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• You can have a great time on a film and the chemistry can seem great but then you look at the finished film and it just doesn't quite gel, something doesn't quite work.

  Guy Pearce

  Looks, Film, Great Times

  "Guy Pearce Exclusive Interview; Talks THE KING’S SPEECH, Luc Besson’s LOCKOUT, DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 9, 2012.

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• We discovered that we have a fun chemistry physically. Cameron [Diaz] has really long legs and a short torso, and I have a really long torso and shorter legs.

  Leslie Mann

  Fun, Long, Legs

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