“Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.” WorldUseNaturalFiveBottomResilienceMultipleNatural WorldWorld LifePolymers Author:Janine Benyus
“The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.” PeopleFeelsShouldWritingStoriesSeemsEarthLife IsEtcBreakfast Of ChampionsAbbreviationsPolymers Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement. It is, in a sense, the key to molecular biology because it shows how the great polymer languages, the nucleic acid language and the protein language, are linked together.” ShowsTogetherLanguageKeysAchievementPaperCodeBiologyLinkedPapersDnaAcidProteinGreat AchievementMolecular BiologySymposiumPolymers Author:Francis Crick
“I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution from a liquid to a fiber requires a process called spinning. ... We spun it and it spun beautifully. It [Kevlar] was very strong and very stiff-unlike anything we had made before. I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout "Eureka!" but I was very excited, as was the whole laboratory excited, and management was excited, because we were looking for something new. Something different. And this was it.” LongMadeDifferentWholeScienceStrongProcessSolutionsDiscoveryManagementExcitedRingsChainsSomething NewVery StrongTransformingLaboratorySpinningLiquidFiberSpunBenzeneKevlarPolymers Author:Stephanie Kwolek
“I am always looking for ways our government can help make everyday life easier for Ontarians, and these new polymer birth certificates do just that. Having a safe and durable birth certificate will provide more security and help protect people from fraud and identify theft.” PeopleWayHelpingGovernmentSecurityBirthEasierProtectSafeEverydayFraudEveryday LifeTheftCertificatesBirth CertificatePolymers Author:Kathleen Wynne
“That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic comedy-like material.” ShowsAgeFunnyFunSpaceComedyMaterialsBeing FunnySyntheticPolymers Author:Jon Stewart