#molecules

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs. ↗

— John Doerr

#better #big #big deal #bugs #chain

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay. ↗

— William Turner

#been #data #give #heard #here

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#control #form #ice #into #molecules

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#building-blocks #earth #existence #life #molecules

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#basic #elaborate #immediately #made #makes

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#i #look #molecules #see #you

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#even #hypothetical #interactions #molecules #more

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#ago #atoms #body #born #brain

It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally. ↗

— Derek Harold Richard Barton

#available #barriers #because #chemists #demonstrate

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules. ↗

— Roald Hoffmann

#barrier #beginning #could #day #discovered