Elements In The Periodic Table Quotes

#1. Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.

Janine Benyus

#2. Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

Marty Rubin

#3. Our star, and most stars, are made mostly of hydrogen, which is the number one element in the universe: 90% of all atomic nuclei are hydrogen, about 8% are helium, and the remaining 2% comprise all the other elements in the periodic table. All

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. Many different elements can form isomers, but only a few elements on the periodic table, like hafnium, can form isomers that last more than fractions of a second - and might therefore be turned into weapons.

Sam Kean

#5. Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#6. You can build your strength, If you read enough books!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. If only.
You got to admit, standing alone those words are pretty awful, but married together like that, they must be two of the saddest in the English language.

Lesley Kagen

#8. Scarily, cadmium is not even the worst poison among the elements. It sits above mercury, a neurotoxin. And to the right of mercury sit the most horrific mug shots on the periodic table - thallium, lead, and polonium - the nucleus of poisoner's corridor.

Sam Kean

#9. Vince Russo destroyed the Periodic Table as he only recognises the element of surprise.

Jim Cornette

#10. Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.

Anthony Powell

#11. The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.

Sam Kean

#12. About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

Sidney Altman

#13. I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

Joe Murray

#14. Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

Omar N. Bradley

#15. I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working.

Patrick J. Adams

#16. When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion.

David Christian

#17. Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.

Sam Kean

#19. Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you'll find them.

Sam Kean

#20. 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

#21. Maybe I don't know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time.

Andre Agassi

#22. The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.

Sam Kean

#23. History may be accurate, but archaeology is precise.

Doug Scott

#24. Periodic Wall of the Elements Q. What would happen if you made a periodic table out of cube-shaped bricks, where each brick was made of the corresponding element?

Randall Munroe

#25. 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

#26. I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts

Margaret Thatcher

#27. Selfishness has never been admired.

C.S. Lewis

#28. The Yogi says, religion is practical if you know first why misery exists. All the misery in the world is in the senses. Is

Swami Vivekananda

#29. Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.

Anandamayi Ma

#30. What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

Sylvia Browne

#31. The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

Adam McKay

#32. I completely failed to see the value in memorizing the stupid periodic table of elements.

Inara Scott

#33. One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

Sam Kean