156 Quotes About Oxygen

While I routinely breathed oxygen for five years at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), the medical profession refused to put me oxygen as they said it would damage my lungs by making them lazy.

In Bio last year, I learned that blood is actually a dark maroon when it's inside your body. It's the exposure to oxygen that turns it bright red. And there must have been a lot of oxygen in my bathroom, because that blood was bright, bright red.

But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles. Upon this principle I have based a practice.

You do not need to have faith that oxygen is in the air. You simply breathe normally. The oxygen is in you and around you. You cannot see it, but you can breathe it. You know it exists. You do not need faith in oxygen to breathe. In this exact way, you have a direct connection to Ultimate Reality.

I had once remarked to Feely that, because of the oxygen, breathing fresh air was like breathing God, but she had slapped my face and told me I was being blasphemous.

Do you breathe oxygen? We have so much in common...

Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope.

Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen.

LIBOR; is the oxygen of the financial atmosphere.