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Discover the most inspirational quotes from the Gunpowder Quotes. Here, you’ll find a diverse collection of motivation, wisdom, love, laughter, or a deeper understanding of life, our curated selection of quotes has something for everyone.
Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Gunpowder Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Gunpowder Quotes

Pete du Pont

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.

– Pete du Pont

Nat Turner

All my time not devoted to my master’s service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.

– Nat Turner

Mark Oliphant

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

– Mark Oliphant

John Boyd Orr

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

– John Boyd Orr

Gary Locke

China’s history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

– Gary Locke

Edward M Lerner

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

– Edward M Lerner

Charles C Mann

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations – paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on – came to Europe via the Silk Road.

– Charles C Mann

Cai Guo-Qiang

I’m always oscillating between if I should sprinkle more gunpowder or less. But if I put too much gunpowder, there may be holes throughout the silk. If not enough, the power and energy would not be shown.

– Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang

I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the social condition, I found gunpowder gradually as a very suitable medium for exploration.

– Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang

One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other reason is I was always looking for a visual language that goes beyond the boundary of nations, and so I found gunpowder.

– Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.

– Cai Guo-Qiang

Ana Patricia Botin

We didn’t invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.

– Ana Patricia Botin

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