Noble Gases

Famous quotes containing the words noble and/or gases:

    “Hamlet. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
    not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till a
    find it stopping a bung-hole?
    Horatio. ‘Twere to consider too curiously to consider so.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The bird is not in its ounces and inches, but in its relations to Nature; and the skin or skeleton you show me, is no more a heron, than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)