Sam Kean Quotes
Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
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Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.
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There are a lot of problems in this country having to do with permissiveness.
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I suppose you could say there is an in-built stubbornness to me.
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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
