A Quote by Bill Nye

If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else...

Bill Nye

Quote Topics

Body Brain Chemist Else Information Large Memorize Outside Part Periodic Periodic Table Reason Some Something Something Else Speed Store Table Up Way Will Your Your Body

Quote Author

Bill Nye
American - Educator
Born: November 27, 1955

If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.

Sam Kean

Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.

Sam Kean

Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.

Sam Kean

What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist.

Karl Barry Sharpless

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

Richelle Mead

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

Edward Boyden

The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.

Sam Kean

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

Isadore Singer

We need less memorization - I never memorized the periodic table of the elements - I've never used it, and I'm a physicist! I can look it up.

Michio Kaku

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.

Sam Kean

When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion.

David Christian

Vince Russo destroyed the Periodic Table as he only recognises the element of surprise.

Jim Cornette

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

Joe Murray

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

Diane Ackerman

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

Adam Gopnik

A Quote by Bill Nye

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors