Famous quotes containing the words chemical, separation and/or plant:
“If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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