Aluminium Quote by Sam Kean

“We are all great alchemists. We distil ourselves over and over again.”

— Deborah Valentine

“Science and industry have in less than fifty years developed man's power of destruction to an extent which makes comparison with the past futile.”

— Frederick Maurice

“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and…

— Johann Joachim Becher

“A nation is not made welthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.”

— Adam Smith

“What alchemy there was in human beings.”

— Agatha Christie

“America isn't young, you know. It's ancient and evil. With aluminum siding.”

— Rudy Rucker

“The world is a very different place, where steel can be bent and twisted. But maybe that is the point - that steel is…

— Tribute WTC Visitor Center

“All the while, I was trying to find meaning in a metal world.”

— Alfred Cedeno

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…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Oil. The great addiction of the civilized world”

— Andrew Warren

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

— Calvin Coolidge

“Chemistry was a terrible thing, sometimes it simply sparked between the wrong people”

— Natasha Anders