Kekule Structure Quotes & Sayings

You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets. — Joan Bauer

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man ... — Jean-Paul Sartre

There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power. — Frederick Lenz

Science is an inherent contradiction - systematic wonder - applied to the natural world. In its mundane form, the methodical instinct prevails and the result, an orderly procession of papers, advances the perimeter of knowledge, step by laborious step. Great scientific minds partake of that daily discipline and can also suspend it, yielding to the sheer love of allowing the mental engine to spin free. And then Einstein imagines himself riding a light beam, Kekule formulates the structure of benzene in a dream, and Fleming's eye travels past the annoying mold on his glassware to the clear ring surrounding it - a lucid halo in a dish otherwise opaque with bacteria - and penicillin is born. Who knows how many scientific revolutions have been missed because their potential inaugurators disregarded the whimsical, the incidental, the inconvenient inside the laboratory? — Thomas Lewis

P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women. — Paulo Freire

My idea of storytelling is-I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.' — David Milch

You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them. — Graham Elliot

What about your mum? She got taken away. Mine too, I said. There was nothing special about that. It happened all the time. — Judy Budnitz

When you are giving a certain portion of your life to people and you're selling it sexually, you're selling it sensually, and you're selling it romantically - for you to then take that portion that you give only to fans away and to give it to one person, it kind of ... if they don't approve, it might be crickets for me. — Trey Songz

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum — Dean Cavanagh

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been. — Annie Dillard

The problem with finding paradise is that others might find it, too. — Eric Weiner

He was part of my dream, of course - but then I was part of his dream, too. — Tiffany Reisz

After the pain, the pleasure. — Diana Palmer