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Big Bang gave us hydrogen and helium. We couldn't make people out of hydrogen and helium. So we're made out of exploding stars.


John C. Mather

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JOHN RHYS-DAVIES Most stars just fuse hydrogen into helium, but larger stars can fuse helium into other elements. Sti...
SAM KEAN We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long...
JILL TARTER So those of us interested in lunar helium-3 fusion power are very interested in more precise mapping...
HARRISON SCHMITT We're not just any star stuff, most of which is humdrum hydrogen and listless helium. Our bodies...
SETH SHOSTAK Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only h...
JILL TARTER The sun derives its energy from fusion reactions in which hydrogen is transformed into helium.
RAYMOND DAVIS, JR. After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitati...
WOLFGANG KETTERLE Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light...
WILSON GREATBATCH In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: Th...
SAM KEAN This cannot be correct. I can think of at least half a dozen different lines of evidence that say th...
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BOB INGLIS We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big one...
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BEYONCE KNOWLES Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.
HARLOW SHAPLEY A lot of people tend to knock hydrogen these days. And it's a clear sign it's progressing. It's typi...
ALAN LLOYD We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd...
RICHARD FLANAGAN I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
LARRY BURNS You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have...
KIM BASINGER If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us,...
DAN GILBERT If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Our true ancestry is the emergent creativity of the universe. Our forebears were the great inventors...
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STEVE FOSSETT I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.
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SONNY BILL WILLIAMS We want to help lead the country and the world into the hydrogen economy.
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BENNY HILL Sometimes I'll do a mask if I had a lot of makeup on that day or was out in the sun. I like a hy...
ZHU ZHU The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen...
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LYNN ABBEY He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he s...
TOM KENNY China's appetite for power is rapidly expanding and the country's energy companies continue to build...
PIERRE RIVARD We see this concept as the first consumer ready hydrogen vehicle.
DAVID WAGNER Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a vi...
JOEL MADDEN We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
VALERIE HARPER Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...
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CAROLINE LEAVITT Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying t...
JOEL COEN My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out ...
LES DAWSON We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's fl...
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TYLER JOSEPH I don't believe we're the party of big business.
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MARK ZUCKERBERG Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the ...
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JANE SIBERRY Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national secu...
DAN LIPINSKI You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.
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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.
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DAVID MUIR It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had rea...
FRANCES FARMER Even with the approach that I take in Congress, which is to bring people together to get things done...
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JOHN C. CALHOUN Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated an...
JOHN C. MAXWELL A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enoug...
JOHN C. MAXWELL It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the ...
JOHN C. BURTON We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.
JOHN C. MAXWELL The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has ...
JOHN C. DANFORTH If you feel like your life is on a treadmill and you can't find time for what matters, get a new tre...
JOHN C. SENALL Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. The...
JOHN C. CALHOUN A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
JOHN C. MAXWELL I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
JOHN C. HAWKES Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vagu...
JOHN C. CROSBY I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive....
JOHN C. CALHOUN What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect i...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish ...
JOHN C. REILLY In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's m...
JOHN C. REILLY There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and popula...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, po...
JOHN C. CALHOUN