Compounds Quotes

• The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Two
  • Organic
  • Compounds

• The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke.

  

  William Poundstone
  • Strategy
  • Broke
  • Consistent

• The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Truth
  • Two
  • Half

• We've polluted the stratosphere with these chlorine and bromine compounds, and because it's now colder, and because we have this change in the climate, we're getting more ozone loss than we would have gotten in a normal year.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Loss
  • Environmental
  • Normal

• The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.

  

  Wolfgang Ostwald
  • Differences
  • Prove
  • Elements

• Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.

  

  Georg Ernst Stahl
  • Science
  • Chemistry
  • Combining

• This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Century
  • Dimensions
  • Anticipation

• Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Boundaries
  • Psychedelic
  • Dissolving

• It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Curious

• The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

  

  Johannes Stark
  • Single
  • Atoms
  • Compounds

• I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings.

  

  Hesham Qandil
  • Police
  • Building
  • Attacking