Hydrogen Quotes

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  Harlan Ellison

  Funny, Life, Stupid

  Harlan Ellison, Arnie Fenner (2011). “Bugf#ck: The Useless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison”

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• I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Hydrogen Fuel, Oxygen

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Abandoned”, p.142, Jules Verne

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• Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

  Dan Lipinski

  Promise, Environmental, Energy

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• Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Light, People, Enough Time

  Smithsonian Magazine, December 1995.

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• If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

  Dennis Weaver

  War, Support, Energy

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• To understand hydrogen is to understand all of physics.

  Unknown

  Physics

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• Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.

  Charlie Dent

  Light, Hydrogen Fuel, Energy

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• Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Drinking, Book

  "Vegetable Magnetism" by Dave Barry, www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 1991.

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• This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

  Brian Swimme

  Discovery, Giraffe, Enterprise

  What Is Enlightenment? Magazine Interview, storyoftheuniverse.org.

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• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupid, Humor

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake.

  Dennis Weaver

  Air, Would Be, Helping

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• The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

  Dan Lipinski

  Zero, Car, Independence

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• The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.

  Dan Lipinski

  Zero, Water, Environmental

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• The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, could become obsolete.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Top Down, Oil, Energy

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• It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Oxygen, Water, Weight

  Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, David M. Knight (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Elements of chemistry”, p.94, Taylor & Francis

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• I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!

  George Sweeting

  Anger, Thinking, Hydrogen Bomb

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• In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Baseball, Science, Dust

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• Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

  James Alan Gardner

  Choices, Sacred Things, Deliberate

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.353, Open Road Media

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• Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.

  Harlow Shapley

  Records

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• Two things are universal: Hydrogen and stupidity

  Frank Zappa

  Two, Stupidity, Universal

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• Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Giving Up, Ions, Would Be

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• Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

  Ed Markey

  Years, Detroit, Vehicle

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• And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.

  Dan Lipinski

  Home, Energy, Needs

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• A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Rays, Owing

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• Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Light, Space, Fusion

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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