quotes about Molecules
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From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.
-- Albert Einstein -
I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.
-- Alfred Kastler -
The separate atoms of a molecule are not connected all with all, or all with one, but, on the contrary, each one is connected only with one or with a few neighbouring atoms, just as in a chain link is connected with link.
-- August Kekule -
Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
-- Bhagat SinghSource : Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”
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The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.
-- Brian Greene -
We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules.
-- Cesar Milstein -
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a line of melody written in a canon form & so designed by Nature to fold back into itself, creating harmonic chords of interaction consistent with biological function
-- Christian B. Anfinsen -
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
-- Clarice LispectorSource : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing
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You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.
-- Dan AykroydSource : "Agony and Excesses of Stardom". San Francisco Chronicle: p. 16, March 4, 1986.
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It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally.
-- Derek Barton -
The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
-- Dmitri MendeleevSource : Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (2013). “Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905”, p.175, Courier Corporation
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Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
-- Don DeLillo -
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A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time... The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior.
-- Donella MeadowsSource : Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.2, Chelsea Green Publishing
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The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
-- Dorothy HodgkinSource : Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”
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Still I had a lurking question. Would it not be better if one could really 'see' whether molecules as complicated as the sterols, or strychnine were just as experiment suggested?
-- Dorothy HodgkinSource : Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”
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It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena.
-- Ernst Mach -
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I'm aware there are certain products that are being advertised - food products - with 'no chemicals whatsoever.' Well, that would be pretty hard to arrange, since everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules - chemicals - including ourselves.
-- Francis Collins -
Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
-- Francis CrickSource : 1988 What Mad Pursuit, ch.5.
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It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.
-- Francis Crick -
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.
-- Frank Herbert -
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I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.
-- Frank Macfarlane BurnetSource : "Immunological Surveillance". Book by Burnet, F.M., Pergamon Press, pp. 240-241, 1970.
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There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
-- Garik Israelian -
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
-- George Wald -
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!
-- George Wald -
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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.
-- Gilbert N. Lewis -
I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
-- Glenn Close -
Change the molecules, juices in the blood, so they do things differently.
-- Harold Clurman -
Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.
-- Henry Charles CareySource : Henry Charles Carey (1872). “Manual of Social Science: Being a Condensation of the "Principles of Social Science" of H.C. Carey, LL.D.”, p.37
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There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own, the aforementioned paradoxical properties. They are present in living systems only; that is to say, nowhere below the level of the cell.
-- Jacques Monod -
When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.
-- Jane WagnerSource : "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
-- Jerry GarciaSource : Jerry Garcia, Charles Reich, Jann Wenner (2009). “Garcia: A Signpost To New Space”, p.68, Da Capo Press
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Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy,
-- Jim JarmuschSource : "The Limits of Control". www.imdb.com. 2009.
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Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.
-- John Doerr -
Testosterone is the world’s most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you’re helpless.
-- Julie Smith -
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
-- K. Eric Drexler -
People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
-- Kary Mullis -
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And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.
-- Lewis Thomas -
If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary In structure, then each of these parts can serve as the mould for the production of a replica of the other part, and the complex of two complementary parts thus can serve as the mould for the production of duplicates of itself.
-- Linus Pauling -
It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are further applied to physiological problems it will be found that the significance of the hydrogen bond for physiology is greater than that of any other single structural feature.
-- Linus Pauling -
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Life ... is a relationship between molecules.
-- Linus PaulingSource : Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers”, p.1168, World Scientific
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It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much information about the course of the evolutionary process, and to illuminate the question of the origin of species.
-- Linus Pauling -
I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society.
-- Lord Kelvin -
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. Acknowledging the role of molecules that have stereoisomers, some the mirror image of the others, and microorganisms whose chemistry prefers only one of those forms.
-- Louis Pasteur -
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I generally won't do a role unless I feel like it's in my system somewhere, even if it's just a molecule of it. Like I just felt like I knew it and if I talked about it or discussed it or tried to rehearse it that it would take away the energy from that scene so I went in there and just did it.
-- Lucy Liu -
No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules
-- Meg Cabot -
The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.
-- Michael Shermer -
As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
-- Otto Wallach -
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I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic.
-- Paula Deen -
If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.
-- R. C. Sproul -
If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
-- R. C. Sproul -
Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259
-- Rachel Naomi Remen -
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When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT. Later, at birth, the pineal releases more DMT. As we die, the life-force leaves the body through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this psychedelic spirit molecule.
-- Rick Strassman -
From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.
-- Roald Hoffmann -
One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.
-- Roald Hoffmann -
Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.
-- Sarah Dessen -
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My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
-- Shawn AshmoreSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all its different compounds and you will not be able to escape the following law: The different quantities of the same element contained in different molecules are all whole multiples of one and the same quantity, which always being entire, has the right to be called an atom.
-- Stanislao CannizzaroSource : Stanislao Cannizzaro (1910). “Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy”
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Man is basically an individual molecule of the God-Force.
-- Stuart Wilde -
Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell. The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem.
-- Werner Arber -
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Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.
-- Paul McEuen -
We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules.
-- Gerald Edelman -
Darwinan evolution is limited to the biological aspect but before that happened the molecules themselves had to evolve to enable this further (biological) evolution.
-- Jean-Marie LehnSource : Source: www.lindau-nobel.org
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If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they would behave exactly like the cathode rays.
-- Joseph John ThomsonSource : "Cathode rays". Philosophical Magazine, (44, 293), 1897.
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Testosterone is the world’s most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you’re helpless.
-- Julie SmithSource : Julie Smith (1995). “New Orleans Beat”, Fawcett Books