Chemistry Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.”

Kurt Vonnegut

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I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

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