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Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional…

— Victor Grignard

“the rising of the sun is an enough motivation to the chlorophyll”

— king Annan

“The mind which relate clover with eminence, why forget to relate limitations with human ambitions.”

— M.H. Rakib

“I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.”

— Jerry Spinelli

Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in…

— Janine Benyus

“Plants are nature’s alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the ability of…

— Michael Pollan

“There’s no doubt about it: more varieties of carbon-based molecules exist than all other kinds of molecules combined.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to…

— Michael Pollan

“In the late 1970s, scientists working on gene-silencing discovered that the attachment of a small molecule-a methyl group-to DNA was correlated with a gene's…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Chlorophyll! More like borophyll!

— Billy Madison

In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations,…

— Otto Wallach

...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?

— Saul Bellow