Chemicals Quotes

• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Memories, Thinking, Brain

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• I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

  Jack Steinberger

  Hard Times, Engineering, Income

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.

  Henry Waxman

  Past, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Yoga, Thinking, Fda

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• In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Two, Iraq, Use

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• Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Genius, Spirit, Reason

  "Athenaeum" magazine, #366, 1798.

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• I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law

  Wilfred Owen

  Philosophy, Law, Analysis

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.410, Delphi Classics

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• Every chemical reaction has a transition state.

  Derek Barton

  Transition, Chemical Reactions, States

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• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  Hans Blix

  Military, People, Biological Warfare

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• It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

  Jim Ramstad

  Aggravation, Numbers, People

  United States of America Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress First Session Vol 145- Part 10, p. 14054, June 1999.

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• Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Years, Atmosphere, Environmental

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• Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

  Johannes Stark

  Individuality, Doe, Different

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• After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

  John Polkinghorne

  Stars, Years, Generations

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• A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Cameras, Pennies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

  Keith Henson

  Brain, Problem, Victim

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• I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Stories, Actors, Improvisation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

  Delia Smith

  Process, Be Good

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• The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

  Hans Blix

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

  Lin Yutang

  Change, Humor, Character

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

  Greg Walden

  Poison, Use, Flow

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• With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Years, Mind, Twenties

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• The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

  Johannes Stark

  Discovery, Facts, Atoms

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• For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

  Johannes Stark

  Light, Atoms, Wave

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• By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

  Johannes Stark

  Taken, Humanity, Steps

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• It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

  Johannes Stark

  Atoms, Structure, Century

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