For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one’s ignorance in the face… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2)… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“One of my astronomy managers used to tell me that liquid nitrogen was harmless and was just liquid air. He would pour… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We need to go back to our relationship with nature and understand that those trees are our lungs. The earth is recycling… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
