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“My wife could turn to me and she may say, ‘Why do you love me?’ And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, ‘Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.’”
— Robin InceRobin Ince: Science versus wonder?
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“In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.”
— Edith WidderEdith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world
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“As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?”
— Lee CroninLee Cronin: Making matter come alive
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“[Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that … allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they’re doing things together because it makes a difference.”
— Bonnie BasslerBonnie Bassler: How bacteria "talk"
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“Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it’s chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it’s all so ephemeral.”
— Mike deGruyMike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus
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“The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.”
— Paola AntonelliPaola Antonelli previews "Design and the Elastic Mind"
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Watch this talk Share“It’s all about a balancing act between time, temperature and ingredients: That’s the art of baking.”
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“If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.”
— Garik IsraelianGarik Israelian: How spectroscopy could reveal alien life
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“Despite its very small weight, enough [isoprene] is emitted into the atmosphere every year to equal the weight of all the people on the planet.”
— Rachel PikeRachel Pike: The science behind a climate headline
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“I highly recommend that you get a chance to see crude oil burn someday, because you will never need to hear another poli sci lecture on the geopolitics of oil again. It’ll just bake your retinas.”
— Lisa MargonelliLisa Margonelli: The political chemistry of oil
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“It’s much more important to have a car that runs, to have a job and keep a job, than to have a GED. That’s actually very perverse.”
— Lisa MargonelliLisa Margonelli: The political chemistry of oil
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“We need to remove the perverse incentives to use more fuel. We have an insurance system where the person who drives 20,000 miles a year pays the same insurance as somebody who drives 3,000. We actually encourage people to drive more.”
— Lisa MargonelliLisa Margonelli: The political chemistry of oil
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“You might notice that many gas pumps, including this one, are designed to look like ATMs. I’ve talked to engineers. That’s specifically to diffuse our anger, because supposedly we feel good about ATMs.”
— Lisa MargonelliLisa Margonelli: The political chemistry of oil
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“Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.”
— Krista TippettKrista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion
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“If we went to another planet and we thought there might be life there, how could we even recognize it as life?”
— Martin HanczycMartin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life
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“Over the last hundred and fifty years or so, science has kind of blurred the distinction between non-living and living systems, and now we consider that there may be a kind of continuum that exists between the two.”
— Martin HanczycMartin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life
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