Sam Kean Quotes
If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
Sam Kean
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
Tamsin Egerton
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
Oliver Sacks
I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
Nas
The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
Irvine Welsh
Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
Quvenzhane Wallis
All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
Quavo
Migos
In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.
John Stamos
I'm a New Yorker. I was there during 9/11 and I saw how, not only New York City stopped for a moment, we all took an inhale and exhale at the same time - the world united at that time, and it changed my life.
Aisha Hinds
If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.
Pico Iyer
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Jackie Chan
I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.
Haley Joel Osment
If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
Sam Kean