Compounds Quotes

• There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Soul, Gold

  Aidan Coleman, Shane Barnes, William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.133, Insight Publications

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• Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

  John Simon

  Cancer, Stress, Cells

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• Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Spirit, Explosions

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• All human power is a compound of time and patience.

  Honore de Balzac

  Time, Power, Humans

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Eugenie Grandet”, p.141, The Floating Press

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• If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, President, Delay

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Truth, Appearance

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.825, Library of America

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• Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.

  Georg Ernst Stahl

  Art, Science, Body

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• Love is the most powerful force in the world.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Love, Powerful, Civilization

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• Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

  Patrick Dixon

  Powerful, Civilization, World

  Patrick Dixon (2011). “Futurewise”, p.127, Profile Books

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• Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Pay The Price, Civilization

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• The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

  Dave Barry

  Powerful, Pay The Price, Civilization

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.

  Georg Ernst Stahl

  Fire, Principles, Hot

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• The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Important, Disease, Viruses

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• Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other is 1, 2, or at most 3 ... The apparent contraction of volume suffered by gas on combination is also very simply related to the volume of one of them.

  Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

  Simple, Law, Unity

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• The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Teaching, Practice

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• I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known ones and when discovered are valueless-very illustrations perhaps of their refinements in analysis, but very little aiding the progress of true science.

  Michael Faraday

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Michael Faraday, Christian Friedirich Schoenbein (1899). “The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters”

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• When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The sweetness resides neither in the C, nor in the O, nor in the H; it resides in the pattern that emerges from their interaction. It is an emergent property. Moreover, strictly speaking, is not a property of the chemical bonds. It is a sensory experience that arises when the sugar molecules interact with the chemistry of our taste buds, which in turns causes a set of neurons to fire in a certain way. The experience of sweetness emerges from that neural activity.

  Fritjof Capra

  Sweet, Science, Fire

  David Diamond, Fritjof Capra (2007). “Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-based Dialogue”, p.169, Trafford Publishing

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• The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.

  Wolfgang Ostwald

  Science, Differences, Elements

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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 Cannizzaro

  Science, Law, Molecules

  Stanislao Cannizzaro (1910). “Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy”

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• In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Science, Fire, Light

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• A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Sight, Fog

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

  Marc Andreessen

  Innovation, Growth, Bigger

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• 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 Mendeleev

  Character, Molecules, Elements

  Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (2013). “Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Atoms, Exception, Series

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• When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

  Humphry Davy

  Two, Numbers, Elements

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