There are no mineral monsters.

“Evolution is all about turning "bugs" into "features", turning "noise" into "signal", and the fuzzy boundaries between these categories are not optional; the opportunistic…

— Daniel C. Dennett

“Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones.”

— Axel Fredrik Cronstedt

As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The most perfect…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern the origin,…

— Georgius Agricola

In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major interest.

— Janet Yellen

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I'm really low maintenance for a girl. I pretty much shower, attempt to fix my hair, throw on some mineral make up, and go.

— Johanna Braddy

“Is love like a mineral, to be chipped away with every new problem or deficiency?”

— Saira Shah

The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a giant thing.…

— Michael Dickinson

Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends…

— Alex Steffen

A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in mineral deposits…

— Anonymous

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

— Ambrose Bierce

You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

— Linus Pauling

Some days, I know beauty techniques like it's my job, and other days I can't do my makeup for the life of me. So…

— Christian Serratos