Chemistry Quote by Douglas Adams

“Given enough time, hydrogen starts to wonder where it's been and where it's going.”

— El Kikko

“A nuclear flash started with a “fast-rising, short-duration pulse followed by a comparatively slow-rising long-duration pulse” as the fireball grew. Not even nature’s most…

— Garrett M. Graff

Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“As the cosmos continues to cool—dropping below a hundred million degrees—protons fuse with protons as well as with neutrons, forming atomic nuclei and hatching…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Castle Bravo had been built according to the “Teller-Ulam” scheme—named for its co-designers, Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam—which meant, unlike with the far less…

— Annie Jacobsen

“It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a…

— Steven Galloway

“It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you…

— Ernest Rutherford

“It burst out of me until I was a star exploding. And I could see everything.”

— Jodi Meadows

“For the briefest of instants, a miles-wide hole appeared from the middle of the Earth to the top of the sky. The Moho rang…

— Raymond Dean White

“A vast and fiery nuclear furnace launched photons through the reaches of space; they hurtled trillions of kilometers at breakneck speed, then filtered gently…

— Anonymous

“A year after that, the great red star, its waist now nearly to Jupiter, all at once collapsed in on itself and exploded into…

— Kevin Emerson

“Scientists expected that the Super, a fusion or "thermonuclear" weapon, would be an awesomely destructive horror that could unleash the equivalent of several million…

— James T. Patterson