Periodic Quotes
51 quotes by 51 authors
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due…
— David Attenborough
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Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people,…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general…
— Frederick Soddy
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Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that…
— Leonard Bishop
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Vince Russo destroyed the Periodic Table as he only recognises the element of surprise.
— Jim Cornette
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For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful…
— Freeman Dyson
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Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just…
— Primo Levi
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Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the…
— Dean Kamen
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I was born with a lot of horsepower. There was a lot cooking inside me, a lot of energy, and Dad was a strong man…
— Richard Boone
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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of…
— Sidney Altman
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Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
— John Locke
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Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.
— Jentezen Franklin
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because…
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief…
— Adam Gopnik
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In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal,…
— Barbara Tuchman
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... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table.…
— Laini Taylor
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I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure,…
— Saul Bellow
Who Wrote These Periodic Quotes
51 authors contributed a total of 51 Periodic Quotes, led by these top contributors: