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• While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.

  Brock Yates

  Zero, Media, Car

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• Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes through six reactions, and at the end one comes back to carbon. In the process one has made four hydrogen atoms into one of helium. The theory, of course, was not made on the railway train from Washington to Ithaca ... It didn't take very long, it took about six weeks, but not even the Trans-Siberian railroad [has] taken that long for its journey.

  Hans Bethe

  Taken, Journey, Hydrogen Atom

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• In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are introduced.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Etc, Chlorine, Chemistry

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• One often feels as though something had happened before, I remember. It comes quite close to you and stands there and you know it was just this way once before, exactly so; for an instant you almost know how it must go on, but then it disappears as you try to lay hold of it like smoke or a dead memory. "We could never remember, Isabelle," I say. "It's like the rain. That has also become one, out of two gasses, oxygen and hydrogen, which no longer remember they were once gasses. Now they are only rain and have no memory of an earlier time.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Memories, Rain, Oxygen

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• Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.

  Jill Tarter

  Stars, Giants, Generations

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• Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil. But the day they use hydrogen for transportation, this is the day that oil disappears.

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani

  Oil, Here And There, Use

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Oxygen, Logical Arguments

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• We need to go back to our relationship with nature and understand that those trees are our lungs. The earth is recycling as our body. The rivers are our circulation. This air is our breath. And the star stuff, the carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen that comes from distant galaxies is actually the molecules of your body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Air, Rivers

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the Star Wars program designing weapons ignited by hydrogen bombs. I didn't want to do that. I thought about how many scientists had died in World War II.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, War, Science

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• They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.

  Thomas Davis

  Reality, Cells, Trying

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• GM is pursuing gasoline-savings solutions on many fronts on the way to our ultimate vision of hydrogen fuel cell-powered transportation. E85 ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline and is a renewable, domestic fuel that can enhance the nation's economy and energy security.

  Joseph Lowery

  Hydrogen Fuel, Cells, Vision

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• Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

  David Suzuki

  Bird, Sensitive, Canaries

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. August 29, 2003.

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• Democrats believe we should renew our commitment to creating tax credits for hybrid vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars, and investing in ethanol, biofuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Believe, Commitment, Technology

  "Democrats' Radio Response". www.foxnews.com. October 08, 2005.

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• Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.

  James Lovelock

  Stars, Fall, Long Ago

  "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth". Book by James Lovelock, 1979.

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• It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

  Winston Churchill

  Science, Hydrogen Bomb, Bombs

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• Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

  Fred Reed

  Book, Writing, Lakes

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• t century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Energy, Peers, Internet

  "‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these [hydrogen fuel cell] cars from laboratory to showroom, so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Commitment, Hydrogen Fuel

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• America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars and in pollution-free cars that run on hydrogen. We will also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Cutting, America

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen and other light elements, and it is an everyday reality throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.

  Carl Sagan

  Reality, Light, Sky

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• We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously...

  Sukarno

  Fear, Men, Hydrogen Bomb

  Sukarno's speech at the opening of the Bandung Conference, as quoted in "Selected Documents: Some Aspects Concerning Progress & Principles of the Indonesian Revolution, Book 1" (p. 14), April 18, 1955.

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• We may indeed live yet to see, or at least we may feel some confidence that those who come after us will see, such bodies as oxygen and hydrogen in the liquid, perhaps even in the solid state, and the question of their metallic or non-metallic nature thereby finally settled.

  Thomas Andrews

  Science, Oxygen, Body

  Thomas Andrews (1889). “The Scientific Papers of the Late Thomas Andrews ...”

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• Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.

  Harold Urey

  Regret, Science, Should Have

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• I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.

  Idi Amin

  Hydrogen Bomb, Political, Bombs

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• A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Science, Years

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