Interest Quote by Ian Hacking

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number…

— Marie Curie

“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

Normally, you would not call ice a mineral.

— Ira Flatow

“Aluminum occupies nearly ten percent of Earth’s crust yet was unknown to the ancients and unfamiliar to our great-grandparents. The element was not isolated…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The nature of the precious liquid from which purple came would not be entirely understood for another two millennia. In 1826, a twenty-three-year-old student…

— Mark Kurlansky

“It’s an exciting time to dive into the world of the lesser-known elements like actinides and see what unique possibilities forward-thinkers have envisioned for…

— Sybrina Durant

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is…

— George Berkeley

Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert.…

— Paulo Coelho

“When things were wet, the minerals calcite, CaCO3 (carbonate with a calcium atom hooked on), and hematite, Fe2O3 (iron oxide, also known as rust),…

— Bill Nye

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

— Ambrose Bierce

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated…

— Alan Watts

I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the…

— Harold Urey