Hydrogen Quotes

133 Hydrogen quotes by 104 unique authors

You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X… — Bill Bryson
A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac… — Jostein Gaarder
Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of… — William L. Shirer
Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar. You are made… — Augusten Burroughs
One often feels as though something had happened before, I remember. It comes quite close to you and stands there and you know it was… — Erich Maria Remarque
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to… — Julian Barnes
Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging… — Madeleine L'Engle
It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into… — Makoto Shinkai
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is. — D. H. Lawrence
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge… — Enrico Fermi
My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications,… — Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere. — Seth Shostak
Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a… — Annie Jacobsen
On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed… — Annie Jacobsen
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. — Fritz Haber
Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia. — Fritz Haber
Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings. — Victor Grignard
With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical… — Peter Diamandis
The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a number of conditions, the most important of which are… — August Krogh
In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such… — Otto Wallach
When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime… — Charles Platt
The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe… — Francis William Aston
Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen. — Lara St. John
So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is. — Bob Inglis
For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of… — Bob Inglis

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