Reagents Quotes

#1. I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.

George Washington Carver

#2. Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits.

Christopher Kelk Ingold

#3. Steps for Problem-Solving Know your nomenclature. Identify the functional groups. Identify the other reagents. Identify the most reactive functional group(s). Identify the first step of the reaction. Consider stereoselectivity.

Kaplan

#4. The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#5. One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents.

Craig Venter

#6. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.

Jimmy Carter

#8. Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

Mikhail Naimy

#9. They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian.

Dorothy Dunnett

#10. I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

Lola Kirke

#11. It's only every two hours for the first six weeks.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. There is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.

Richard Lindzen

#13. Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.

Mary Landrieu

#14. A sharp and familiar pang pierced his heart, rattled around his ribs, and then settled in his stomach like a rotting, dead weight. He took a swig of his Jack on the rocks, the burn not quite dulling the ache that had haunted him for two decades. God, he missed Anna. Enforcer's Redemption

Carrie Ann Ryan

#15. Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware - not only of our own inner workings but also of what's happening around us in the here & now.

Sharon Salzberg