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Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.

— Richard Smalley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.

— Sam Kean

I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine.

— Summer Phoenix

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

— Kenneth Edmonds

Graphene is a single plane of graphite that has to be pulled out of bulk graphite to show its amazing properties.

— Andre Geim

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

— Richard Dawkins

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

— Mark Twain

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

— Confucius

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

— Malcolm Forbes

I like pressure. Diamonds are made under pressure, and I definitely enjoy it.

— Caroline Buchanan

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.

— Debra Messing