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“The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions that are neither necessary or congenital: matter is matter, neither noble nor vile, infinitely transformable, and its proximate origin is of no importance whatsoever. Nitrogen is nitrogen, it passes miraculously from the air into plants, from these into animals, and from animals into us; when its function in our body is exhausted, we eliminate it, but it still remains nitrogen, aseptic, innocent.”

Stills Matter Body Certain Animal Teach Cases Air Overcoming Function Importance Remains Trade Plant Noble Innocent Exhausted Chemist Auschwitz Revulsion Nitrogen

Book:The periodic table

Source: The periodic table

“The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.”

Ifs Body Earth Left Water Air Philosophical Remains Best Things Ingredients Air And Water

Author:Novalis

“A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.”

Ifs Body Remains Contact Bodies In Motion

Author:Aristotle

“Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.”

Art Play Body Purpose Imagination Fantasy Forever Exercise Remains Instinct Experiments Release Spontaneous Improvisation Ecstatic Physical Body

Book:The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art

Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art