156 Quotes About Oxygen

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on the combination of oxygen absorbed by blood corpuscles with the combustible constituents of the blood to form carbonic acid and water.

I find it difficult to breathe when l'm in the space. There seems to be no oxygen. I want to put people into a situation where they're sensitive to themselves watching the piece.

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen