Ira Flatow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People tend to romanticize what they can't quite remember.
-- Ira Flatow

#People #Remember
Form follows finances instead of function.
-- Ira Flatow

#Finance #Form #Function
There's something very magical about water and what happens to it when it freezes. I don't think there's anything else in the world, perhaps in our universe, that is quite like ice.
-- Ira Flatow

#Thinking #Ice #Water
Amorphous forms [of ice], for example, are found naturally on comets, on asteroids, and the crystalline forms are found on Earth or at least could be made on Earth with enough pressure. Nothing else does this.
-- Ira Flatow

#Ice #Example #Doe
Ice is remarkable in many ways. A simple experiment one can do at home is to add salt to an amount of water in different concentrations. For example, one can mimic the concentration of the ocean, or one can make it even saltier.
-- Ira Flatow

#Ocean #Home #Simple
Mainly, of course, if you're not an ice climber, where you really need ice, for most people ice is a damn nuisance. And we just can't wait for it to all melt.And it's always a remarkable fact that it takes so long to melt because the temperature of the air can be well above the freezing point, and the ice is still solid there. So for most people, that's the experience.
-- Ira Flatow

#Air #Ice #Long
The different colors [of water] again refer to the fact that those little jacks, if you want to call them jacks, those little pyramids, can be packed together in all different ways. And depending on how they're packed together.If you Google blue ice, as I did just while your caller was asking his question, you see some beautiful pictures of ice covering a lake.
-- Ira Flatow

#Beautiful #Lakes #Blue
H2O it's a complicated, three-dimensional, charged object. And one can pack these things in many different ways, a little like playing the child's game of jacks, where those complicated little objects can be thrown together in all different ways.
-- Ira Flatow

#Children #Games #Together
The principal reason it transforms is that water is a collection of molecules, H2O, every child learns that.And that bond has the property that as the bonds get stronger when you cool water, the ice expands.
-- Ira Flatow

#Children #Ice #Water
Normally, you would not call ice a mineral.
-- Ira Flatow

#Ice #Minerals
I think the most remarkable thing about ice, in my opinion at least, is that it occurs in many, many, many different forms. Most solids occur in typically one or maybe two or three different forms, and ice has approximately 15 different crystal forms, as well as two forms that are called amorphous, which means without any shape at all.
-- Ira Flatow

#Mean #Thinking #Two
I love ice, when I was in Antarctica many decades ago, I got to see a lot of ice. And the one thing that impressed me -because I love to talk about ice - is that it has a color.
-- Ira Flatow

#Color #Ice #Antarctica

You may also like:

Ann Druyan
Author
Brian Greene
Theoretical Physicist
Dick Durbin
United States Senator
Dick Morris
Author
Eric Kandel
Professor
Ira Glass
Radio personality
Joe Biden
Vice President of the United States
John McCain
United States Senator
Lawrence M. Krauss
Physicist
Mike Huckabee
Former Governor of Arkansas
Neal Stephenson
Author
Newt Gingrich
Former U.S. Representative
Richard Dawkins
Ethologist
Robert Reich
Former United States Secretary of Labor
Stephen Colbert
Satirist
Terry Gross
Radio host
Ari Shapiro
Journalist
Audie Cornish
Journalist
Renee Montagne
Journalist
Steve Inskeep