Simple Compounds

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or compounds:

“The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that’s the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.”
—Cyril Ponnamperuma (b. 1923)