Top 233 Mercury Quotes & Sayings

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

Freddie Mercury inspired me when I was young.

When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.

Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true.

It's not like I'm pretending to be Freddie Mercury.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

People have been telling me for years that I sound like Freddie Mercury.

In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.

Music is an essential part of any film, but when it comes to Mercury' it actually became a medium of communication.

I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Thimerosol is the preservative in immunisation shots, so anytime you get an immunisation shot you are undergoing the same procedure that in the University Lab we used to give animals auto-immune disease---give a little tiny injection of mercury. And when you get an immunisation shot you are getting a little tiny dose of mercury there.

Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

Freddie Mercury made a lot of sense to me even though I didn't understand the lyrics.

'Mercury' being a silent film needed a strong background score that could give you chills down the spine.

I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.

I'm not playing for any other organization. I'm Phoenix Mercury until I'm done.

My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.

'Mercury' is about a big company exploiting a small town. There is a place in Tamil Nadu called Kodaikanal. It had a thermometer factory, which would dump the mercury into the river. This affected a lot of people. This incident is the inspiration for this film.

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities

Though I'm a New Englander, I'm very indoorsy once the mercury drops.

Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury’s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton’s mathematics predicted. In 1915, Einstein used his new equations to recalculate Mercury’s trajectory and was able to explain the discrepancy, a realization he later described to his colleague Adrian Fokker as so thrilling that for some hours it gave him heart palpitations.

No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

Besides being one of the most ambitious projects I have worked on, 'Mercury' has also helped me enhance my skills as a director.

My struggles have been around protecting our air quality, protecting people from mercury in fish. I was very involved in the effort to get the FDA to recognize that mercury in fish is a real health issue and the FDA, you know, needed to be on that. But they were very tight with the fishing industry and did not want the public to be aware in the same way that they later didn't want the public to be aware of the problems with Vioxx, and they sat on the studies for many years and allowed 140,000 people to develop heart disease.

I wish I was Freddie Mercury, straight up.

I'm a huge mimic. That's how I learned to sing. I listened to a lot of Freddy Mercury, obviously.

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.

I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.

Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

As for mercury, a child will almost certainly get more mercury exposure from her immediate environment than from vaccination. This is true, too, of the aluminum that is often used as an adjuvant in vaccines to intensify the immune response.

I had thought training for Mercury was rigorous. Once we got caught up in the Gemini training program, our Mercury training looked pretty soft.

Only Freddie Mercury could do Freddie Mercury. He was absolutely brilliant - I loved him to pieces, and I had a great deal of respect for him.

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

The Pandora's box of unholiness is attempting to sing anything that Freddie Mercury ever sang.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office

My favourite song is Someone To Love. That is more like me than the other stuff, as it was the only one I was actually able to create from the bottom up. I call it an homage, not a remake. It is an homage to Freddie Mercury, because I don't think people can really remake Freddie Mercury. That's why we did a gospel version.

Freddie Mercury and I both loved to have a laugh on tour. If there were shenanigans and good times, Fred and I would be there.

There will never be another Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock and roll singers.

You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.

Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.

I dreamed that I was being raped by Freddy Mercury.

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.