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Quotes About Periodic

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
~ Diane Ackerman
Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
~ John Locke
I say "every so often" but it's more frequent than that.
~ Stanley Elkin
But you have told me," Elizabeth protested, "time and again, that the hallmark of civilization is routine." Lady D shrugged and made a fussy little chirping sound. "A lady cannot take it upon herself to occasionally change her routine? All routines need periodic readjustment.
~ Julia Quinn
Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
~ Sam Kean
Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
~ Sam Kean
You can't rest in the shade of a human, not even a roly-poly one; and isn't it refreshing that trees can undergo periodic change without having a nervous breakdown over it?
~ Tom Robbins
Yet every now and then, even a scientist can't help thinking of the Periodic Table as a zoo of one-of-a-kind animals conceived by Dr. Seuss.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.
~ Laini Taylor
Such orbits are not completely regular, since they never exactly repeat themselves, but they are certainly predictable, and they are far from chaotic. Points never arrive inside the curve or outside it. Translated back to the full three-dimensional picture, the orbits were outlining a torus, or doughnut shape, and Hénon's mapping was a cross-section of the torus. So far, he was merely illustrating what all his predecessors had taken for granted. Orbits were periodic.
~ James Gleick
The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.
~ Thomas Harris
As a result, there occurred periodic pardons (indultos) for civil war-related offences (though never for anything defined as post-war "crimes against the security of the state"). Tens of thousands of people were released by the mid 1940s. These pardons were necessary or the gaols would have caved in under the pressure
~ Helen Graham
Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
~ Sam Kean
Mendeleyev had realized that when the elements were listed in order of their atomic weights, their properties repeated in a series of periodic intervals. For this reason, he named his discovery the Periodic Table of the Elements.
~ Unknown
All I know is this: despite my androgenized brain, there's an innate feminine circularity in the story I have to tell. In any genetic history. I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you have to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
What's more, many inventions and innovations came to us courtesy of dreams, including the periodic table and the sewing machine.
~ Unknown
The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
~ Benjamin Graham
Scrivendo trovavo breve pace e mi sentivo ridiventare un uomo, uno come tutti, nè martire nè infame nè santo, uno di quelli che si fanno una famiglia, e guardano al futuro anzichè al passato. - Il sistema periodico
~ Primo Levi
Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...
~ Dean Koontz
some abusers are rarely home at all, using the house only as a base for periodic refueling.
~ Unknown
the tangent function is periodic with period 180°,
~ Unknown