Science goals Quote by Brandon McCaw

“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

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they…

— Seth Lloyd

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

— Friedrich Paneth

The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think…

— Thomas Harris

Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element,…

— Enrico Fermi

I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and…

— Mordechai Vanunu

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

— William Kingdon Clifford

You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium,…

— Richard P. Feynman

“If the elements are the alphabets of chemistry, then the compounds are its plays, its poems, and its novels.”

— Loretta Jones Peter Atkins

My best inorganic friend is science!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

“You couldn’t just tell an octillion atoms to drop whatever they were doing, rearrange themselves into a completely new configuration and do some scouting…

— Jester Bobbity