Quotes about molecule
A collection of quotes on the topic of molecule, atom, use, likeness.
Quotes about molecule

Edwin Grant Conklin, in: Evolution by Association : A History of Symbiosis: A History of Symbiosis http://books.google.co.in/books?id=wEo1QUkr7pUC&pg=PA129, Oxford University Press, 22 August 1994

Source: The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989), p. 162.

Royal Institution Lecture (April 30, 1897) as quoted by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity from the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century http://books.google.com/books?id=CGJDAAAAIAAJ (1910).
Quotes eat me

“Life is water, dancing to the tune of macro molecules.”
Water, Energy, and Life: Fresh Views From the Water's Edge, Gerald Pollack, 01/30/2008, University of Washington TV, February 5, 2011 http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.aspx?rID=22222,.

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

the conclusion of the historical Stern-Gerlach experiment, in The Method of Molecular Rays http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1943/stern-lecture.html, Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1946.
Richard Carrier, "Bad Science, Worse Philosophy", Addendum B, http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/addendaB.html#et_al at The Secular Web (Internet Infidels: 2000)
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"Cathode rays" http://web.lemoyne.edu/~GIUNTA/thomson1897.html Philosophical Magazine, 44, 293 (1897).
Quotes eat me

“I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning”
As a response to Major B. F. S. Baden Powell's request to join the Aeronautical Society, December 8, 1896 http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/letters.html#baden-powell.
Often reproduced out of context and without citation to any primary source as "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible", like in The Experts Speak : The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (1984) by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, p. 236
Context: I am afraid I am not in the flight for “aerial navigation”. I was greatly interested in your work with kites; but I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the aëronautical Society.

the question that decided her to specialize in X-ray cristallography, as quoted by [Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, Nobel Prize women in science: their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries, Joseph Henry Press, 1998, http://books.google.com/books?id=-PqK3zxkRrIC&pg=PA231, 0-309-07270-0, 231]
Source: How we're growing baby corals to rebuild reefs https://www.ted.com/talks/kristen_marhaver_how_we_re_growing_baby_corals_to_rebuild_reefs (October 2015)

“I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos.”
Testimonial at "2006 Beyond Belief Conference": Minute 0:04, 2006, 2010-12-07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rr-jyg0MyI,
2000s

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
Miller (1956) "General behavior systems theory and summary". In: Journal of Counseling Psychology. 3 (2) 120-124. Cited in: Francis Ferguson (1975) Architecture, cities and the systems approach. p. 12

Original: (fr) On dirait que le végétal est l'ébauche, le canevas de l'animal, et que, pour former ce dernier, il n'a fallu que revêtir ce canevas d'un appareil d'organes extérieurs, propres à établir des relations. Il résulte de là que les fonctions de l'animal forment deux classes très-distinctes. Les unes se composent d'une succession habituelle d'assimilation et d'excrétion ; par elles il transforme sans cesse en sa propre substance les molécules des corps voisins, et rejette ensuite ces molécules, lorsqu'elles lui sont devenues hétérogènes. Il ne vit qu'en lui, par cette classe de fonctions ; par l'autre il existe hors de lui : il est l'habitant du monde, et non, comme le végétal, du lieu qui le vit naître. Il sent et aperçoit ce qui l'entoure, réfléchit ses sensations, se meut volontairement d'après leur influenc, et le plus souvent peut communiquer par la voix, ses désirs et ses craintes, ses plaisirs ou ses peines. J'appelle vie organique l'ensemble des fonctions de la première classe, parce que tous les êtres organisés, végétaux ou animaux, en jouissent à un degré plus ou moins marqué, et que la texture organique est la seule condition nécessaire à son exercice. Les fonctions réunies de la seconde classe forment la vie animale, ainsi nommée, parce qu'elle est l'attribut exclusif du règne animal. Recherches Physiologiques sur la Vie et la Mort (1800) Translation: [Russell, E. S., Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology, 1916, London, 28,
https://archive.org/details/formfunctioncont00russ/page/n5/mode/2up]
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Xavier Bichat / Quotes

Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 48

" Measure of Design: A Conversation About the Past, Present & Future of Darwinism & Design http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=17-06-060-i#ixzz2elFILC9O|The" Touchstone, volume 17, issue 6, pages 60-65, at page 64 (July/August 2004).
2000s

Source: Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, (1986), p. 348, quoting from Session 276
From Journey of the Universe:

David R. Brower, in an interview with Terkel, but much of it is sometimes misattributed to Terkel himself.
Misattributed

Jail Note Book of Shahid Bhagat Singh (1929) http://www.scribd.com/doc/9728510/Jail-Note-Book-of-Shahid-Bhagat-Singh
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Garden of Eden

Source: The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (2010), Ch. 2: 'Life: Freak Side-Show or Cosmic Imperative?', p. 31
Source: Science and Complexity, 1948, p. 537

Source: Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic (1995), p. 1-2.

New millennium, An Enjoyable Life Puzzling Over Modern Finance Theory, 2009

How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)

Source: 1910s, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 1.
Principles of Biochemistry, Ch. 2 : Water
"The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis", pp. 41–42
Eight Little Piggies (1993)

Source: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (1996), p.45 as cited in: Gert Korthof (1998) "Kauffman at home in the Universe: The secret of life is auto-catalysis". Book review, 20 Oct 1998 ( online http://home.wxs.nl/~gkorthof/kortho32.htm)

Exclusive Interview with Aron Ra – Public Speaker, Atheist Vlogger, and Activist https://conatusnews.com/interview-aron-ra-past-president-atheist-alliance-america/, Conatus News (May 17, 2017)
" Some Concepts In Reaction Dynamics http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1986/polanyi-lecture.pdf" (8 December 1986), as published in Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1986, p. 403.

E. Laszlo (1994) Vision 2020: Reordering Chaos for Global Survival. Philadelphia: Gordon & Breach.

"Inside, Outside", p. 567 of the hardcover edition. The quote is fictional physicist Mark Herz answering the protagonist's question "What can you know about G-d? You either believe or you don't."

No. 51
On the Interpretation of Nature (1753)

Tjalling Koopmans in: Review of economics and statistics, Vol. 31 -(1949), p. 87
Principles of Modern Chemistry (7th ed., 2012), Ch. 3 : Classical Bonding: The Classical Description

Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)

Source: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life (1999), Ch. 1: 'The Meaning of Life', p. 41
Principles of Biochemistry, Ch. 1 : The Foundations of Biochemistry

Burnet, F.M. (1970) Immunological Surveillance. Pergamon Press. pp. 240-241.

The Nature of Chemical Bond (1939), Ch 14. A Summarizing Discussion of Resonance and Its Significance for Chemistry.

Source: Introduction to Systems Philosophy (1972), p. 83.
Source: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 28
Human Destiny, 1947, p. 33
Commenting on Charles-Eugene Guye's calculation that the odds against the random formation of a particular protein molecule would be about 1 in 10 to the 243rd.

Capra (2007) in: Francis Pisani " An Interview with Fritjof Capra http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/69/25" in: International Journal of Communication Vol 1 (2007).

Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community

The Adjacent Possible: A Talk with Stuart Kauffman, 2003
Source: 1960s, Robots, Men and Minds (1967), p. 75 as cited in: Jan Kåhre (2002) The Mathematical Theory of Information. p. 175-6

“You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.”
As quoted by [Agony and Excesses of Stardom, Doug, Hill, Jeff, Weingrad, San Francisco Chronicle, March 4, 1986, 16]

“A diatomic molecule is a molecule with one atom too many.”
as quoted in [Dave DeMille, Diatomic molecules, a window onto fundamental physics, Physics Today, 2015, December, 34, 68, 12, 10.1063/PT.3.3020]
Principles of Modern Chemistry (7th ed., 2012), Ch. 1 : The Atom in Modern Chemistry

1960s, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)

Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 19 (p. 234)

“When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.”
As "Trudy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

Source: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (1996), p.112

“When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.”
"Trudy"
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough & Time (1954)
Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)

“I'm coming back as a cat or a tree or a molecule in my next life.”
16 February 2015 https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/567542121033236483
Twitter https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666 posts

Source: The Theory of Electrons and Its Applications to the Phenomena of Light and Radiant Heat (1916), Ch. I General principles. Theory of free electrons, pp. 8-10

Part 1, p. 23; As cited in: Meyer, Stephen C. "DNA by design: An inference to the best explanation for the origin of biological information." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 1.4 (1998): 551.
Thermodynamics of Evolution (1972)

Part 6 “Aleph Null”, Chapter 4 (p. 226)
Against Infinity (1983)
Principles of Biochemistry, Ch. 1 : The Foundations of Biochemistry