I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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The fall prime-time television lineup always looks so fastidious and ordered, laid out in a neat little grid like some periodic table… — Steve Johnson Copy Share Image
“Radioactive elements in chemistry can be compared to magical knights of old, wielding powerful transformations to release energy, essential in technologies from… — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to… — David Christian Copy Share Image
If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Some womans had cause the addition of a new element to the PERIODIC TABLE: Name: Women Symbol: Wmn ATOMIC WEIGHT: Don't even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sir Isaac Newton famously said that he had achieved everything by standing on the shoulders of giants—the scientific men whose findings he… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“Recite the Periodic Table of Teatime, in correct order, with Elemental Symbols, please.' A-Through-L sat back on his handsome black haunches, shut… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Do they always flirt with biblical quotes?” Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, “They can flirt with the periodic table… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
“There’s something about death that gets our attention. When it’s close—in the family or shared by the community—it sends us back to… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
“Dad once noted (somewhat morbidly, I thought at the time) that American institutions would be infinitely more successful in facilitating the pursuit… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I will love you with no regard to the outrage of certain parents or the boredom of certain friends. I will love… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that science itself is politics. Scientific knowledge is profoundly different from political ideology. Science is an intellectual… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“I will love you with no regard to the actions of our enemies or the jealousies of actors. I will love you… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“the strangely elusive and counterintuitive character of the quantum world has encouraged some to suggest that the idea of entities like electrons… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“even a scientist can’t help thinking of the Periodic Table as a zoo of one-of-a-kind animals conceived by Dr. Seuss. How else… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn't have to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Only three of the naturally occurring elements were manufactured in the big bang. The rest were forged in the high-temperature hearts and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“You're still just silicon," he said, as he turned the page. "And you're just carbon," Art persevered. "Since when has the periodic… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Scarily, cadmium is not even the worst poison among the elements. It sits above mercury, a neurotoxin. And to the right of… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
“Like his Russian contemporary Dostoevsky — who wrote his entire novel ‘The Gambler’ in three weeks to pay off desperate gambling debts… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Hydrogen is used in more compounds (nearly 100) than any other element because it can form bonds with almost all metals, metalloids,… — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
“Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows atoms to exist and also allows… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“Her muscles clearly were not just for show. She pulled him into an empty chemistry classroom and closed the door. There were… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort… — Cindy Rollins Copy Share Image
“The actual structure of the life we know is deeply and pervasively anchored in the particularities of the periodic table. If one… — Eric Smith Copy Share Image
