Decompositions Quotes & Sayings

They say an interesting life leaves its mark on your face, and if that's true,
she's got one hell of a story. — Ann Aguirre

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by a singular felicity of reasoning, to arrest the corrosion of the copper-sheathing of vessels ... this was regarded as by Laplace as the greatest of Sir Humphry's discoveries. — Charles Babbage

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. — Antoine Lavoisier

In deriving a body from the water type I intend to express that to this body, considered as an oxide, there corresponds a chloride, a bromide, a sulphide, a nitride, etc., susceptible of double compositions, or resulting from double decompositions, analogous to those presented by hydrochloric acid, hydrobromic acid, sulphuretted hydrogen, ammonia etc., or which give rise to the same compounds. The type is thus the unit of comparison for all the bodies which, like it, are susceptible of similar changes or result from similar changes. — Charles Frederic Gerhardt

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation. — Henry Paulson

I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me. — Sylvia Plath