Chemicals Quotes - Page 13

• Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?

  Barry Commoner

  Powerful, Technology, Men

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• With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

  Dustin Lynch

  Jobs, Wish, Environmental

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• Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them against Islamic laws. Irans Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass destruction weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we support the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]

  Ali Larijani

  Islamic, Mass Destruction, Iran

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• I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

  Anson Mount

  Wall, Military, Years

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.

  William Crookes

  Inquiry, Fundamentals, Firsts

  Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain), Society for Psychical Research (London, England), Henry Sidgwick, Balfour Stewart, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (Earl of) (1912). “Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911”

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• The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject to the constraints of the physical and chemical factors that severely limit the action of all inhabitants of the biosphere. Put simply, convergence shows that in a real world not all things are possible.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Real, World, Limits

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. You see, advice and lovelorn don't go together. Because advice makes love sound like some sort of cognitive activity, but we know that it isn't. We all know that it's some sort of horrible chemical reaction over which we have absolutely no control. And that's why advice doesn't work.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Advice, Making Love, Together

  Interview with David Savage, www.indexmagazine.com. 1996.

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• How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Answers, Way

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• [G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Long, Doe, Enzymes

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• I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

  Dolph Lundgren

  Engineering, People, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.

  Diane Ackerman

  Moving, Humans, Human Beings

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

  Karl Marx

  Substance, Elements, Plant

  Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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• Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Psychics, Action, Social

  Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It's a chemical thing in the brain. It's a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.

  Alan Lightman

  Thinking, Years, Feelings

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• Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.

  Enrico Fermi

  Years, Important, Elements

  Enrico Fermi (1971). “Collected Papers: Italy 1921-1938”

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• I've had every known chemical - cocaine, booze - and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Suggestions, Watches, World

  Launch.com, October 10, 2003.

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• If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.

  Charles Fort

  Light, Hymns, Special

  Charles Fort (2014). “Lo!”, p.48, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• America has shown we are serious about removing the threat of weapons of mass destruction... We now know that Saddam Hussein had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.... We know he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs and the dual-use facilities that could be used for these chemical and biological agents. We know that he was developing the delivery systems - ballistic missiles - that had been prohibited by the United Nations.

  Dick Cheney

  Mass Destruction, America, Use

  "Vice president urges Congress to make tax cuts permanent". usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 16, 2004.

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• We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

  Rachel Carson

  Radiation, Environment, Indifferent

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Able, Nomenclature, Degrees

  "Elements of Chemistry". Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.

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• Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Cells, Doe, Chemistry

  "The Scientific Basis of Medicine Annual Reviews", Vol. 1969, Athlone Press, quoting "Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift", Coper, H., Herken, H. (1963), 1969.

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• The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Century, Projects, Instruments

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• apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

  Dervla Murphy

  Clouds, Air, Racism

  Dervla Murphy (2001). “South From the Limpopo”, p.55, The Overlook Press

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• Synthetic or inorganic substances do not contain any 'life force'; they are not dynamic. Everything is made of chemicals, but organic substances like essential oils have a structure which only mother nature can put together. They have a life force, an additional impulse which can only be found in living things.

  Robert Tisserand

  Mother, Oil, Together

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• We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

  Dimitar Sasselov

  Rocks, Water, Needs

  "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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