Quotes About Chemistry

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Essentially all life uses redox chemistry to generate a gradient of protons across a membrane. Why on earth do we do that?

A night in the arms of Venus, it was said, led to a lifetime on Mercury.

Geochemistry gives rise seamlessly to biochemistry.

the igneo-aerial food." In other words, despite

For that matter, how do we switch from simple chemical affiliations to selection for proteins? And how do we get from RNA to DNA? As it happens, there are some striking answers, backed up by surprising findings in the last few years. Gratifyingly, the new findings square beautifully with the idea of life evolving in hydrothermal vents, the setting of Chapter 1.

I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.

A kiss isn't terminal. It is the way you do it.

Can you stand a little closer? Hmm? You smell good. I like to smell you.

We're as different as that water and hot glass, Rogan. And as able to make something strong between us.

No sooner looked but they loved.

She wanted to take a look at you, too. She heard you were a hunk. Is that so? Amused, Brian shifted. Did you tell her that? I certainly did not. I have more respect for you than to speak of you in such a sexist way. Respect's a good thing. He yanked her into the box, crushing his mouth to hers before she could laugh. But I'm banking on passion just at the moment. Have you passion for me, Keeley? he murmured against her mouth.

she'd find she liked Gabriella.

She hadn't felt the click often enough in her life to take it for granted. And when it was so obviously echoed in the man who caused it . . . that was something to think about.

Plus you're really hot"—he dumped pasta in the boiling

Cyanide is natural. So is arsenic.

How physical beauty turns out to be chemistry and geometry and anatomy. Art is really science. Discovering why people like something is so you can replicate it. Copy it. It's a paradox, creating a real smile. Rehearsing again and again a spontaneous moment of horror. All the sweat and boring effort that goes into creating what looks easy and instant.

You take a 98-percent concentration of fuming nitric acid and add the acid to three times that amount of sulfuric acid. Do this in an ice bath. Then add glycerin drop-by-drop with an eye dropper. You have nitroglycerin.

The three ways to make napalm: One, you can mix equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate. Two, you can mix equal parts of gasoline and diet cola. Three, you can dissolve crumbled cat litter in gasoline until the mixture is thick.

Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world.

chemistry experiments where you started pouring different things into a beaker knowing full well there would be an explosion, and ultimately a mess to clean up.

There are two categories of friendship: those in which people enliven one another and those in which people must be enlivened to be with one another. In the first category one clears the decks to be together; in the second one looks for an empty space in the schedule. I

He sobered as he gazed at her, then took a deep breath and pulled away. "I'm not normally affected like this. It's you. You're putting off some hellacious fuck-me vibes." "Not enough, apparently," she muttered.

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.