Quotes About Chemistry

The specific nuclear reaction that is needed to make carbon is a rather improbable one. It requires three nuclei of helium to come together to fuse into a single nucleus of carbon.

We don't fall in love with a woman because of her good character.

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

Our lives are restrained by two laws of biology: all of life's entities and processes are obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry; and all of life's entities and processes have arisen through evolution and natural selection.

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter.

If we think of alcohol, for instance, as disabling negative barriers to cooperation (lying, suspicion, cheating), we have to also see its positive role in building affiliative, pair bond–like emotional ties between members of the group through the stimulation of endorphins and serotonin.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Love is such central chemistry that creates generations to transfer knowledge for discovering the secrets of the universe and life.

Love is such central chemistry that creates generations to transfer knowledge for discovering the secrets.

I had no technique for dealing with him: only an overpowering, unnerving, irrational, chemical desire to be with him.

Sometimes I think there could be two kinds of love. There could be one rare kind that just naturally exists between certain people. Then there's the more common kind that is constructed.

Life is a chemical process.

Rien ne se cree, rien ne se perd

How can a universe of mindless matter produce beings with intrinsic ends, self replicating capabilities, and coded chemistry?

I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.

Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.

Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.

Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

There are certain people you feel like you've known for a long time from the moment you meet them, and that's exactly how it was with Gaga.

We call chemistry the 'c' word on 'Top Gear,' and you can't fake that, can you?

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.