Quotes by : Sam Kean

Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs....

In fact, his travelogues spend amazingly little time discussing his blindness. Only one passage stands....

For his part, Mendeleev scanned Lecoq de Boisbaudran’s data on gallium and told the experimentalist,....

All we know for sure is that if some astronomer turned a telescope to a far-off star cluster tonight....

When you do the math and examine how much energy is produced per atomic union, you find that fusing anything....

Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer....

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb....

All the elements other than hydrogen and helium make up just 0.04 percent of the universe. Seen from....

Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows....