Quotes About Chemistry

We're not just any star stuff, most of which is humdrum hydrogen and listless helium. Our bodies include fancier ingredients like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and a few other herbs and spices.

Finding a stylist is a little like finding a date; you have to find who is right for you.

My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.

You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.

As early as 1912, we worked on the problem of the hydrogenation of organic substances with the aid of highly compressed hydrogen.

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

The kinks created by cis- double bonds in fatty acids make them difficult to align. Therefore UFAs aggregate poorly, and melt at lower temperatures

may exist mathematical laws of thought in principle derivable from physic/chemistry. Such laws would have to be probabilistic.

Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics.

Your mind does things to my body that your hands never could.

The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

Chemistry was such a strange thing. I'd be willing to bet even Micah couldn't tell me why hundreds of men could leave me cold, while this one could string me along forever with only a smile.

It does not matter how sternly you tell yourself that the crippling paranoia of the small hours of the night is due solely to body chemistry. You still feel absolutely miserable.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Chemistry is like an indefinable thing. When it comes to people playing your best friend or your parents or anything like that, there's always different kind of element to chemistry.

People do business with people they know and like

Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.

Chemically similar to picric acid, trinitrotoluene, known as TNT from the initials of tri, nitro, and toluene, was better suited for munitions.

The C in vitamin C indicates that it was the third vitamin ever identified.

A change as small as the position of a bond—the link between atoms in a molecule—can lead to enormous differences in properties of a substance and in turn influence the course of history. So this book is not about the history of chemistry; rather it is about chemistry in history.

This small combination of atoms, one nitrogen and two oxygens, NO2, attached at the right position, has vastly increased our ability to wage war, changed the fate of nations, and literally allowed us to move mountains.

More important than any one new application is the new 'materials' concept itself. It marks a shift from concern with substances to concern with structures, a shift from artisan to scientist as man's artificer, a shift from chemistry to physics as the basic discipline, and a shift, above all, from the concrete experience of the workshop to abstract mathematics, a shift from starting with what nature provides to what man wants to accomplish. -The Age of Discontinuity, 1969