--- title: "1 Aluminum Quotes By Sam Kean" description: "1 Aluminum quotes by Sam Kean. Plus more from Sam Kean and more Aluminum sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/sam-kean-10876_aluminium_aluminium-s-sixty-year-reign-as-the-worl_1615095.png" --- > [“Aluminium’s sixty-year reign as the world’s most precious substance was glorious, but soon an American chemist ruined everything.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/aluminium-s-sixty-year-reign-as-the-world-s-most-precious-substance/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/sam-kean-10876_aluminium_aluminium-s-sixty-year-reign-as-the-worl_1615095.png) ## More by Sam Kean > [“So while Pauling struggled with his model, Watson and Crick turned theirs inside out, so the negative phosphorus ions wouldn’t touch. This gave them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/so-while-pauling-struggled-with-his-model-watson-and-crick-turned/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just maybe, could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/so-if-big-enough-droplets-fell-far-enough-fast-enough-someone/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/mendeleev-unlike-the-squeamish-meyer-had-balls-enough-to-predict-that/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“Lithium regulates the proteins that control the body’s inner clock. This clock runs, oddly, on DNA, inside special neurons deep in the brain. Special…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/lithium-regulates-the-proteins-that-control-the-body-s-inner-clock/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“Despite the earnest belief of most of his fans, Einstein did not win his Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity, special or general.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/despite-the-earnest-belief-of-most-of-his-fans-einstein-did-not-win/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“The irony is too rich not to point out. When arranging the different human races in tiers, from just below the angels to just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/the-irony-is-too-rich-not-to-point-out-when-arranging-the-different/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“Think of the most fussy science teacher you ever had. The one who docked your grade if the sixth decimal place in your answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/think-of-the-most-fussy-science-teacher-you-ever-had-the-one-who/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“For his part, Mendeleev scanned Lecoq de Boisbaudran’s data on gallium and told the experimentalist, with no justification, that he must have measured something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/for-his-part-mendeleev-scanned-lecoq-de-boisbaudran-s-data-on-gallium/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“Sir Isaac Newton famously said that he had achieved everything by standing on the shoulders of giants—the scientific men whose findings he built upon.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/sir-isaac-newton-famously-said-that-he-had-achieved-everything-by/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms, which disrupt their metabolism (human cells are unaffected).…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/if-certain-bacteria-fungi-or-algae-inch-across-something-made-of/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“Scarily, cadmium is not even the worst poison among the elements. It sits above mercury, a neurotoxin. And to the right of mercury sit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/scarily-cadmium-is-not-even-the-worst-poison-among-the-elements-it/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“Somehow, though, life turned that danger around, and this former poison became essential. It may sound trite, but this reversal always reminds me of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/somehow-though-life-turned-that-danger-around-and-this-former-poison/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“Since before even the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians, human beings used the stars and seasons to track time and record their most important moments.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/since-before-even-the-ancient-egyptians-and-babylonians-human-beings/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows atoms to exist and also allows them to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/today-alpha-equals-1-137-0359-or-so-regardless-its-value-makes-the/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) > [“Furthermore, because silicon packs on more protons than carbon, it's bulkier, like carbon with fifty extra pounds. Sometimes that's not a big deal. Silicon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/furthermore-because-silicon-packs-on-more-protons-than-carbon-it-s/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aluminum/sam-kean/#itemlist", "name": "1 Aluminum Quotes By Sam Kean", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Aluminium’s sixty-year reign as the world’s most precious substance was glorious, but soon an American chemist ruined everything.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sam Kean" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/aluminium-s-sixty-year-reign-as-the-world-s-most-precious-substance/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/sam-kean-10876_aluminium_aluminium-s-sixty-year-reign-as-the-worl_1615095.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/sam-kean-10876_aluminium_aluminium-s-sixty-year-reign-as-the-worl_1615095.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/sam-kean-10876_aluminium_aluminium-s-sixty-year-reign-as-the-worl_1615095.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Aluminium’s sixty-year reign as the world’s most precious substance was glorious, but soon an American…” — Sam Kean", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aluminum/sam-kean/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aluminum/sam-kean/", "name": "Aluminum Quotes by Sam Kean", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aluminum/sam-kean/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/sam-kean-10876_aluminium_aluminium-s-sixty-year-reign-as-the-worl_1615095.png" }, "description": "1 Aluminum quotes by Sam Kean. 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