Richard Smalley Quotes

The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center.

Richard Smalley

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 6, 1943 - October 28, 2005

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With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

Joe Murray

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Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.

Joe Rogan

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If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

Jil Sander

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I'm very pro vaccine. I get all six of my kids vaccinated. I believe vaccines save millions of lives, and people ought to be getting vaccinated.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

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I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.

Ann Voskamp

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Ever since I can remember, I hated silence. I wanted it filled with guitars and melodies to sing all day.

Jeffree Star

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When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Amy Klobuchar

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Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

Amy Chua

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I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

Sissy Spacek

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I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

Tricia Helfer

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You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.

Rita Moreno

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I fight like Bruce Lee. I train in his style of kung fu, wing chun. It's all about fighting with controlled power, so you learn to punch correctly.

Lucy Griffiths

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