Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this…

“Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or if we…

— Alan Weisman

The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down…

— Alex Shoumatoff

Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate…

— Dennis Overbye

“A small bubble of air remained unabsorbed... if there is any part of the phlogisticated air [nitrogen] of our atmosphere which differs from the…

— Henry Cavendish

I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of…

— Ronald Reagan

All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of…

— Annie Dillard

Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat.

— Tom Colicchio

England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a…

— William Crookes

In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it is still…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

“I regard breathing industrial gas to be as harmful as heavy smoking.”

— Steven Magee

…oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order…

— Jules Verne

From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with…

— Ernest Rutherford

And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water,…

— William McDonough

We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the…

— Lennart Nilsson

Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones…

— Natalie Goldberg