Chemistry Quotes - Page 19

• I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact.

  Leon M. Lederman

  School, Kids, College

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Civilization, Gasoline, Harvard

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.112, Penguin

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• We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.

  Terence McKenna

  Looks, Attention, World

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• Ingredients should not read like a chemistry experiment!

  Jessica Capshaw

  Ingredients, Should, Experiments

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• The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.

  Tricia Helfer

  Character, Important, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing.

  Martha Stewart

  Art, College, Ideas

  "Power House". Interview with Emmie Twombly, preview.cosmogirl.com.

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• The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

  Michael Polanyi

  Book, Ideas, Ink And Paper

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• The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

  Michael Botticelli

  Addiction, Brain, Judgment

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• And this movie [Real Steel] definitely looks like nothing else I've made, which was the point. I think also, Evangeline and Hugh are such a fantastic... Their chemistry is so genuine. And also it's a good balance to all those visual effects. It'll give you more of the tone.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Real, Thinking, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It's molecular even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater and when I first went into movies I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.

  Glenn Close

  Blow, Cameras, Energy

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• It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it must occupy in the natural order by comparing it in succession to others.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Order, Effort, Elements

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• Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in fixing the proportions in which bodies combine, and thus laying the foundation for future labors... his merits in this respect resemble those of Kepler in astronomy.

  Humphry Davy

  Simple, Foundation, Principles

  Sir Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society, and Agricultural lectures, pt. 1”

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• The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

  Charles Darwin

  Edinburgh, Dull, Lectures

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11717, Delphi Classics

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• The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.

  Jon Stewart

  Writing, Psychology, Degrees

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• Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.

  Seth Lloyd

  Imagination, Mutation, Firsts

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• A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Moving, Passion, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Men, Humanity

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• The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficulties, harmonized many discords, and yea, more! It shewed the substance of Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where all things are possible.

  Aleister Crowley

  Organization, Ideas, Light

  "Magick Book IV: Liber ABA". Book by Aleister Crowley. Appendix VI: A few principal rituals - Liber Reguli, 1936.

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• It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.

  Michael Faraday

  Doors, Degrees, Advancement

  Michael Faraday (1839). “Experimental Researches in Electricity: Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839”, p.257

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• Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

  Justus von Liebig

  Animal, Vegetables, Mysterious

  Justus von Liebig (1844). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner”, p.10

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• No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.

  Alton Brown

  Art, Creativity, Mean

  "Alton Brown Answers, At Last". Slashdot Interview, interviews.slashdot.org. September 12, 2002.

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• The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

  Francis Crick

  Facts, Movement, Physics

  "Of Molecules and Men". Book by Francis Crick, p. 10, 1966.

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• Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Believe, Giving, Serious Things

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• When people think science and cooking, they have no idea that it's not correctly expressed. We're actually applying the scientific method. People think chemistry and physics are science, but the scientific method is something else.... It's the science that the world of cooking generates: science of butter; science of the croissant.

  Ferran Adria

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  Paul Berg

  Technology, Dna, Receiving

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