Steven Johnson Quotes

Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings.

Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.

Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

Justice can send water back uphill.

Chemistry happens naturally, and there's not really a lot you can do intentionally to create it.

I was in AP chemistry in high school, and I really liked it.

Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!

Though I may not flow where the wind guides me, I won’t become still water.

There are places where life could exist. And we've already discovered that there's been life on certain planets that we've explored. That may just be algae or whatever, but life on Earth began a certain way, too.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not - and also, the most successful kind of life on this planet is not us, it's microbes. They're the ones who greatly outnumber us, and may eventually destroy us.

I am a creature of chemicals.