August Kekule Quotes
Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equivalent to 4 At.H.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
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I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
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There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
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You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
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You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid! ... Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration ... is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon. You see it everywhere.
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We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.
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The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all. The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it. The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
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Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equivalent to 4 At.H.
