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No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and ph...

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It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacte...

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The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to ...

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Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business ...

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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it...

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The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from on...

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We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ough...

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As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities ...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and r...

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Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased...

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On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion yea...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a...

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Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive ...

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We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the pu...

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There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called li...

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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Roy...

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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and or...

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In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this h...

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There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, yo...

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The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high ...

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Lewis ThomasThe Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

My mother showed me that when tin or zinc was bent it uttered a special ‘cry’. ‘It’s due to deformat...

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And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of ...

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[photography]... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to mani...

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A union of literary and scientific cultures – there was not the dissociation of sensibility that was...

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As chemists, we must rename [our] scheme and insert the symbols Ba, La, Ce in place of Ra, Ac, Th. A...

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That the nobility of Man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself ...

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He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without ...

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It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers w...

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We owe our liberation to chemistry," he went on. "For all perception is but a change in the concentr...

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Stanisław LemThe Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a sour...

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