Sam Kean Quotes

Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

Sam Kean

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ThoughtUniverseEarthNobleKansas

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

Ann Leckie

FailureScienceBestScience Fiction

We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.

Stella Young

DailySimplePeopleThinkKnowSee

I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

Tommy Shaw

WindBackAlwaysUpGoingStuck

Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work.

Michael Trucco

WorkLawLaw EnforcementActingSome

I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.

Julia Gillard

StandWeekYouKnowWantAustralia

I have a lot of friends that are actors, and I'm blessed to even have a job.

Josh Segarra

JobBlessedFriendsEvenLot

If you're going to be an R already, you may as well be 'The Hangover,' and you may as well be as shocking as possible, because that's what delivers the most return.

Jon Favreau

YouPossibleReturnMayGoingWell

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.

Douglas Alexander

PowerSpringExampleMostArab

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.

Alice Cooper

MusicPeopleCityChaosSocietyYou

So many people meet and become friends at my shows that didn't know each other before.

SZA

PeopleFriendsKnowMeetBecome

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

Thomas Howard

GodHellDoingParadiseOwnWhere

I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.

Scott Stapp

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