Chemistry Quotes - Page 22

• 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 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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• 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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• Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

  Robert Boyle

  Stones, Firsts, Philosopher

  Robert Boyle (1772). “The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...”, p.36

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• Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large.

  Bill McKibben

  Political, Movement, Littles

  Interview with Diane Silver, www.resilience.org. January 2009.

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• Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.

  Barry Commoner

  Play, Ddt, Environmental

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• You know, what is team chemistry? My opinion is when you have enough people who care about winning and enough people who losing affects. That's what chemistry means to me. It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win, but you're going to have enough people on the same page. It's almost impossible, I think, to get everyone on the same page, but it's gotta mean something to you.

  Derek Jeter

  Team, Mean, Winning

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• I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch.

  Vinnie Vincent

  Kissing, Thinking, Magic

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• You know, people ask, "How does the chemistry happen?" It's like being in a bar when you're drunk. You see the person, and you don't know why, it just works. And it's like everything goes in slow-motion.

  Sandra Bullock

  Drunk, People, Slow Motion

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• I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Thinking, Good Movie, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.

  Rick Perry

  Four, Pilots, Aviation

  "Matthews Delights in 'Ripping Scab' Off 'Ignorant,' Intellectual-Hating GOP" by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. September 15, 2011.

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• We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not taught how to speak to our difficulties and challenges. We're taught the Pythagorean theorem and chemistry and biology and history. We're not taught anger management. We're not taught dissolution of fear and how to process shame and guilt. I've never in my life ever used the Pythagorean theorem!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pythagorean Theorem, Challenges, Guilt

  "Iyanla Vanzant interview for fourth season of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ returning Sept. 6". Interview with Rodney Ho, radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com. September 6, 2014.

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• Y'know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar's eyebrow. But whenit comes to really important things we're as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go 'round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?

  Martin Berkeley

  Love, Stupid, Science

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• Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

  Joseph Silk

  Law, Physics, Cosmic

  Joseph Silk (2008). “The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology”, p.12, OUP Oxford

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• Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Distance, Dating, Erotic

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.

  Linda Barnes

  Dating, Guy, Failing

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Snapshot”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

  David Chang

  Reading, Math, Discipline

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• Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Animal, Men, Years

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• Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

  Daniel Goldstein

  Productive Life, Good Relationship, People

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• Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

  Primo Levi

  Ideas, Alchemist, Gold

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• I certainly don't believe in love at first sight. I definitely believe in a lot of chemistry and lust at first sight. I think that love is something that takes work.

  Amanda Peet

  Believe, Thinking, Love Is

  Source: movieweb.com

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• For my Perfect Chemistry series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.

  Simone Elkeles

  Crazy, Book, Perfect

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• I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

  Joe Torre

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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