Quotes by : Sam Kean

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

Unlike modern pills, these hard antimony pills didn’t dissolve in the intestines, and the pills were....

The color of the emitted light depends on the relative heights of the starting and ending energy levels.....

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.

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

This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily....

Also unlike a planet, an electron—if excited by heat or light—can leap from its low-energy shell....

Yet they enjoy the high. In the surest sign that selenium actually makes them go mad, cattle grow addicted....