3 Quotes by Theodore Gray

This is one experiment guaranteed to produce unexpected fireballs from time to time. Expect them.

Imagine the great depths of time required for countless generations of corals, clams, and microorganisms to live out their lives, pass on their legacy, then die and sink to the ocean floor – just so you can have a gravel driveway. Our own lives, of course, are far less meaningful. We leave nothing, decaying into plant food and fertilizer in just a few years. These creatures built mountains. Our cities rest on their bones.

The fact that iron rusts so readily is one of the great lousy breaks of chemistry, responsible for untold billions in costs every year.