--- title: "Best Sam Kean Quotes" description: "Sam Kean is an American writer. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Psychology Today, and The New Scientist. He has als..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-sam-kean-82520.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-sam-kean-82520.jpg) # Sam Kean (1953) Writer United States **58** quotes in **213** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Sam Kean is a writer from the United States, best known for *The disappearing spoon*. ## Quick Facts About Sam Kean Born January 1, 1953 Nationality United States Profession Writer Notable works The disappearing spoon ## About Sam Kean Sam Kean is an American writer. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Psychology Today, and The New Scientist. He has also published six books which discuss scientific discoveries in a narrative style. His books received positive reviews in The Wall Street Journal Library Journal, and The New York Times. He was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and lives in Washington, D.C. ## Awards & Honors James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry ## Quotes by Sam Kean · Page 2 > [“One popular trick, since gallium molds easily and looks like aluminum, is to fashion gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/one-popular-trick-since-gallium-molds-easily-and-looks-like-aluminum/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Gallium Spoons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gallium-spoons-1542460/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e6/sam-kean-10876_gallium-spoons_one-popular-trick-since-gallium-molds-ea_2553504.png) > [“The color of the emitted light depends on the relative heights of the starting and ending energy levels. A crash between closely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/the-color-of-the-emitted-light-depends-on-the-relative-heights-of-the/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Chemical reactions](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chemical-reactions/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/894/sam-kean-10876_chemical-reactions_the-color-of-the-emitted-light-depends-o_1807153.jpg) > [“Every molecule in our bodies started off life as a gas, and long after our demise, when the big red bloated sun…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/every-molecule-in-our-bodies-started-off-life-as-a-gas-and-long-after/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4d/sam-kean-10876_life_every-molecule-in-our-bodies-started-off_3192702.png) > [“Great literature remains great when it says new things to new generations, and the loops of a knot quite nicely parallel the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/great-literature-remains-great-when-it-says-new-things-to-new/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20c/sam-kean-10876_books_great-literature-remains-great-when-it-s_965966.png) > [“All the elements other than hydrogen and helium make up just 0.04 percent of the universe. Seen from this perspective, the periodic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/all-the-elements-other-than-hydrogen-and-helium-make-up-just-0-04/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Earth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/earth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e0/sam-kean-10876_earth_all-the-elements-other-than-hydrogen-and_2397898.png) > [So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just…](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/) [Bigs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bigs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec9/sam-kean-10876_bigs_so-if-big-enough-droplets-fell-far-enoug_87826.jpg) > [“So while Pauling struggled with his model, Watson and Crick turned theirs inside out, so the negative phosphorus ions wouldn’t touch. This…](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/) [Dna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dna/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/sam-kean-10876_dna_so-while-pauling-struggled-with-his-mode_70041.png) > [“In a touch Buckland would have appreciated, this multipronged dispersal from Africa is sometimes called the Weak Garden of Eden theory. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/in-a-touch-buckland-would-have-appreciated-this-multipronged/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Garden of eden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/garden-of-eden/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a4/sam-kean-10876_garden-of-eden_in-a-touch-buckland-would-have-appreciat_3061858.png) > [“Furthermore, because silicon packs on more protons than carbon, it's bulkier, like carbon with fifty extra pounds. Sometimes that's not a big…](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/) [Big deal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-deal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/207/sam-kean-10876_big-deal_furthermore-because-silicon-packs-on-mor_636620.jpg) > [“A few years later, Mendeleev, now famous, divorced his wife and wanted to remarry. Although the conservative local church said he had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/a-few-years-later-mendeleev-now-famous-divorced-his-wife-and-wanted/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Double standard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/double-standard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4c/sam-kean-10876_double-standard_a-few-years-later-mendeleev-now-famous-d_1893182.jpg) > [“The emerging and vital truth isn’t who is more Neanderthal than whom. It’s that all peoples, everywhere, enjoyed archaic human lovers whenever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/the-emerging-and-vital-truth-isn-t-who-is-more-neanderthal-than-whom/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Human love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-love/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fee/sam-kean-10876_human-love_the-emerging-and-vital-truth-isn-t-who-i_3170125.png) > [“S-A-T-O-R A-R-E-P-O T-E-N-E-T O-P-E-R-A R-O-T-A-S The palindrome means something like “The farmer Arepo works with his plow,” with rotas, literally “wheels,” referring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/s-a-t-o-r-a-r-e-p-o-t-e-n-e-t-o-p-e-r-a-r-o-t-a-s-the-palindrome/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Palindromes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/palindromes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3df/sam-kean-10876_palindromes_s-a-t-o-r-a-r-e-p-o-t-e-n-e-t-o-p-e-r-a_2772613.png) > [“This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily that still things.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/this-hinted-at-something-that-no-one-had-ever-suspected-that-the/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Bias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bias/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/788/sam-kean-10876_bias_this-hinted-at-something-that-no-one-had_1082827.png) > [In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/in-these-days-before-antiseptics-doctors-themselves-also-suffered/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Amputation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amputation/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96f/sam-kean-10876_amputation_in-these-days-before-antiseptics-doctors_1545271.jpg) > [“Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows atoms to exist and also allows…](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/) [Alpha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alpha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f50/sam-kean-10876_alpha_today-alpha-equals-1-137-0359-or-so-rega_598926.png) > [“Like his Russian contemporary Dostoevsky — who wrote his entire novel ‘The Gambler’ in three weeks to pay off desperate gambling debts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/like-his-russian-contemporary-dostoevsky-who-wrote-his-entire-novel/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66f/sam-kean-10876_books_like-his-russian-contemporary-dostoevsky_2120774.jpg) > [“You're not supposed to interject feelings into science, but part of the reason it's so fascinating that we're 8 percent (or more)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-kean/you-re-not-supposed-to-interject-feelings-into-science-but-part-of/) [Sam Kean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-kean/) [Genetics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/genetics/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb2/sam-kean-10876_genetics_you-re-not-supposed-to-interject-feeling_1136837.png) > [“Scarily, cadmium is not even the worst poison among the elements. 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