Chemicals Quote by William Crookes

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has…

— Michael Leunig

“What is fire? It’s a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don’t really know. Its real beauty is that…

— Ray Bradbury

The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a…

— Robert Mayer

What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent,…

— Ray Bradbury

Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs.

— Payam Akhavan

Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion…

— Tom Robbins

If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.

— Julius Sumner Miller

“In the universe, an important mark of a civilization’s technological advancement is its ability to control and make use of micro dimensions. Making use…

— Liu Cixin

“That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply the random…

— Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

— Benjamin Disraeli

The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times.…

— Bertrand Russell