“My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.” LittlesBitsTeacherSeriousMomDadLittle BitMy DadMy MomChemicalsEngineers Author:Aaron Levie
“If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.” IfsKnowsLittlesDoeBigsGovernmentKnow HowTroublePlantChemicalsComing OutLeaksBenzene Author:R. James Woolsey, Jr.
“The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.” MenWorldLittlesEarthEvilNatureSupportEnvironmentAirSeaDangerousMaterialsRiversUniversalEnvironmentalPartnersChainsChemicalsRadiationPollutionEcologyAssaultTissuesSinisterInitiateIrreversibleSilent SpringContaminationEnvironmental Pollution Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably distant past, some little bag of chemicals fidgeted to life. It absorbed some nutrients, gently pulsed, had a brief existence. This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir. A tiny bundle of genetic material passed from one living entity to another, and has never stopped moving since. It was the moment of creation for us all.” MayLittlesMomentsPastMovingAnimalExistenceHappenedCreationMaterialsPlantExtraordinaryTinyBagsChemicalsEntityHeirsBundlesNutrients Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything