What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn't see it in our own world, there was a real stability. Alan Bradley
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The quote above by Michael Crichton is taken from his book, "Prey". It talks about how his fascination with science led him to the study of chemistry. He writes that he sought to find the first law of chemistry, putting him on a quest for knowledge that took him on a journey of discovery. He sought to know how everything on earth was held together, and what was holding everything together, and that led him into the world of chemistry.

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