Art Quote by Bernard Beckett

“I completely failed to see the value in memorizing the stupid periodic table of elements.”

— Inara Scott

“helium became the first and only element in the chemist’s Periodic Table to be discovered someplace other than Earth. Okay,”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of…

— C.P. Snow

“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.…

— Sam Kean

“Men not men, but animas of coal and iron and clay. Fauna of the elements, carbon, iron, silicon: elementals. They had perhaps some of…

— D.H. Lawrence

“was hard to deal with people when a tiny part of you saw them as a temporary collection of atoms that would not be…

— Terry Pratchett

“I can't believe I spent 13 years at school and never got taught cooking, gardening, conversation, massage, Latin, or philosophy. What were they thinking?…

— Neel Burton

“Chemistry wasn't something you could just create anyway; it was either there or it wasn't.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“He simply said, 'Atoms... they're everywhere'.”

— Ethan Spier

“Materialism, it must be understood, is a premise of science, not a finding.”

— Gordon White

“In particular, a quantity known as the fine-structure constant, which controls the basic fingerprinting for every element, must have remained unchanged for billions of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The atom was split by persistence.”

— Walter Kirn