...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?

I love being a carbon molecule.

— Duncan Trussell

When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste.…

— Fritjof Capra

Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to…

— Michael Pollan

We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we…

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

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

Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "organic" molecules…

— George Wald

Physics and those parts of other fields that grow out of physics - chemistry, the structure of big molecules - in those domains, there…

— Noam Chomsky

The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as…

— Oscar Hertwig

“I was led to the conclusion that at the most extreme dilutions all salts would consist of simple conducting molecules. But the conducting molecules…

— Svante Arrhenius

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of…

— Louis Pasteur

“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able…

— Wilhelm Korner

Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life…

— David Easton

Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

— Kathleen Raine

Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life…

— Sigourney Weaver