#chemistry

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me. ↗

— Burton Richter

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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#chicago #evenings #family #helped #i

By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life. ↗

— Levon Helm

#band #by the time #changed #chemistry #did

Cooking is chemistry, really. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#cooking #really

In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii. ↗

— James MacArthur

#case #chemistry #combination #five-o #hawaii

If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#chemistry #love #you

When he put the old-fashioned mechanical toy on her palm, she stopped breathing. It was a tiny representation of an atom, complete with colored ball bearings standing in for neutrons, protons, and on the outside, arranged on arcs of fine wire, electrons. Turning the key on the side made the electrons move, what she’d thought were ball bearings actually finely crafted spheres of glass that sparked with color. A brilliant, thoughtful, wonderful gift for a physics major. “Why magnesium?” she asked, identifying the atomic number of the light metal. His hand on her jaw, his mouth on her own. “Because it’s beautifully explosive, just like my X. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#explosive #hawke #lovers #sienna #beauty

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#art #botany #chemistry #depend #depends

I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other. ↗

— Victoria Finlay

#dating

Don't ever pity me. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#life #perfect-chemistry #life