Richard Preston

Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.

American Writer

Immanuel Velikovsky

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

Historian

Walt Disney

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

American Businessman

Bill Lee

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

Athlete

Pernell Roberts

If you're locked into a philosophy of nickels and dimes, then you have a pretty limited approach to life. I don't need a lot of money to live with dignity.

American Actor

Tom Wilson

If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?' more often.

American Cartoonist

Richard M. Nixon

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

American President

Jeff Greenfield

History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.

American Journalist

Franklin Pierce Adams

What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

Yogi Berra

American Baseball Player

Used when dealing with money in the United States, especially in small amounts.

U.S. Currency

It might refer to something of little significance or value in everyday language.

Small Change

Highlights the utility of nickel in industrial applications due to its properties.

Industrial Usage

Recognize that nickel is frequently combined with other metals to improve them.

Common Alloy

Often used colloquially within the context of discussions related to criminal justice or movies.

Criminal Jargon

May not be widely understood today as it's an older slang term.

Dated Slang

Don't confuse nickel plating with silver, both are used for durability but have different appearances.

Not Silver Plating

Focus on its protective qualities against wear and rust, commonly found in everyday objects.

Protective Coating

 everywhere in the universe with roughly the same mass they also have the same amount of chemical elements like iron and nickel and so they explode with the same brightness they become cosmic standard candles standard light sources in the dark night because we know how

Making sense of...

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The tribes we lead -...

 and he saw trolleys with long lines of people trying to get to where they wanted to go. He said, well, why don't I just put a sign on my car that takes people wherever they want to go for a jitney -- that was slang for a nickel. And so people jumped on board,

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 a rocky composition at the center of the planet is a core made of iron nickel and sulphur which may have created a protective magnetic field during Mars's earlier years enveloping the core is a rocky mantle made of silicate minerals

Mars 101 PIPE National...

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The tribes we lead PIPE...

 backpack nickel anko's gear lay at the edge of an alder patch but the researcher himself is nowhere to be found the search team enters the thick underbrush makes a grisly discovery the lifeless body of the tallied nickel anko

Killer Grizzly PIPE...

 made out of a hundred-plus different materials. I didn't have the rest of my life to do this project. I had maybe nine months. So I thought, okay, I'll start with five. And these were steel, mica, plastic, copper and nickel.

Thomas Thwaites: How I...

 but I don't fool with a credit card never be everything are you paid cash for it I got 50 cents a day that's way back in but I lived at that I was ever staying with nickel and dime three cents

109-Year-Old Veteran and...

 my life example set for me by my own mother that's where my love of the natural world came from I've never inherited a nickel that I inherited a love the natural world in a respect

50 Years Ago, This Was a...

 and in the future so these are called polymetallic nodules they are one of the three main resources that in the future we may mine to get essential metals like nickel

Nickel