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.

Sam Kean

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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.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Idea

• 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.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
  • Information
  • Given

• 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.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Race

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• 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.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Why
  • Game

• I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Wife

• I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • High
  • Dance
  • Training

• 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.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Real
  • Moral
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Real
  • Children
  • School

• 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.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Professional

• Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Very
  • Been
  • Israel

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Time
  • Book
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Life
  • Science
  • Interesting

• I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Dad

• It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.

  

  Epictetus
  • Death
  • Hunger
  • Troubled

• When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Small
  • Fall

• While we're filming 'Bake Off,' I can get really cold, so I'm often holding a hot-water bottle or layered up under an anorak and a warm hat.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Up
  • Water
  • Cold

• The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Water
  • Skin
  • Cells