Chemicals Quotes - Page 10

• Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.

  Alan Lightman

  Sadness, Law, Brain

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.20, Vintage

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• Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates.

  Sigmund Freud

  Connections, Doe, Use

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (2001). “Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics”, p.31, Psychology Press

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• Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)... the circumstance that photography was not invented earlier remains the greatest mystery in its history... It had apparently never occurred to any of the multitude of artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who were in the habit of using the camera obscura to try to fix its image permanently.

  Helmut Gernsheim

  Photography, Artist, Trying

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• You said love, I say chemical imbalance.

  Ian Kelsey

  Imbalance, Said

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• Within a hundred years of physical and chemical science, men will know what the atom is. It is my belief when science reaches this stage, God will come down to earth with His big ring of keys and will say to humanity, 'Gentlemen, it is closing time.'

  Marcellin Berthelot

  God, Science, Men

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• In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, United States, Warfare

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• I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

  Mel Brooks

  Blood, Sugar, Imbalance

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• You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Sadness, Sleep

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences in form. If we could define clearly the differences in molecular constitution and functions of different kinds of organisms, there would be possible a more illuminating and deeper understanding of question of the evolutionary reactions of organisms than could ever be expected from morphological considerations.

  Ray Lankester

  Science, Animal, Differences

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• The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die.

  Lisa Genova

  Support, Target, Useless

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably distant past, some little bag of chemicals fidgeted to life. It absorbed some nutrients, gently pulsed, had a brief existence. This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir. A tiny bundle of genetic material passed from one living entity to another, and has never stopped moving since. It was the moment of creation for us all.

  Bill Bryson

  Moving, Animal, Past

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.269, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons? He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons. He poison-gassed his own people. He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors. This man has no compunction about killing lots and lots of people. So this is a way to save lives and to save the stability and peace of a region of the world that is important to the peace and security of the entire world.

  Al Gore

  Men, Mass Destruction, People

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• modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

  Mark Kurlansky

  People, Dirt, Eating

  Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.294, Penguin

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• Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or on the land. Because the physical and chemical properties of water are well suited to the requirements of life, it is no accident that life is a water-based phenomenon.

  Robert E. Lee

  Rain, Ocean, Lakes

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• Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.

  Rollo May

  Relationship, Self, Evil

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• There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.

  Raph Koster

  Fun, Sharks, Play

  Raph Koster (2013). “Theory of Fun for Game Design”, p.96, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Science, Data, Body

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• Cacao is rich in happy phenethylamine chemicals called PEA. These compounds have been associated with feeling good and falling in love.

  David Wolfe

  Falling In Love, Feel Good, Feelings

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• The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

  Sandy Berger

  Iraq, Use, Hussein

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• There's a kind of chemical spark that comes sometimes with the character, that you don't even have to think about how she is reacting, you just let yourself go. You just let the character take you, instead of taking the character.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Character, Thinking, Sparks

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Believe, Mean

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong.

  Willie Nelson

  Horse, Animal, Would Be

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• We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.

  Wendell Berry

  Air, Water, Degrees

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• The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

  Ziggy Marley

  Effects, Knows

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• Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything's changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and sudenlly you're going to live another few hours.

  Terry Pratchett

  Juice, Life Is, Hours

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.31, Random House

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