Chemicals Quotes - Page 2

• I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Path, Chemical Reactions, Reactions

  Kenichi Fukui (1997). “Frontier Orbitals and Reaction Paths: Selected Papers of Kenichi Fukui”, p.152, World Scientific

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• The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

  Tony Blair

  Real, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

  "Bush, Blair Decry Hussein" by Karen DeYoung, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2002.

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• When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

  Joshua Lederberg

  School, Cells, Trying

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• The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Views, Development, Creation

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• We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

  Richard Lugar

  Perfect, Accountability, Nuclear

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• Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Long, Substance, Weight

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• In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

  Humphry Davy

  Matter, Causes, Energy

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• Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

  John Sununu

  Technology, Nuclear, Use

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• I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

  Sydney Brenner

  House, Tests, Chemistry

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• Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Stress, Doctors

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• Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs).

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Irs, Elements, Weight

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• Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Latin, Work Out, United States

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• Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Fun, People

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• In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

  Leo Baekeland

  Company, Ran

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• For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

  Rachel Carson

  History, Historical, Environmental

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

  Theodor Herzl

  House, Secret, Machines

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• I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Eugenics, Kind, Decomposition

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• I was in chemical jail.

  James Taylor

  Jail

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

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• So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

  Russell Baker

  Science, Moon, Men

  1969 Editoral pages, the New York Times, 21 Jul.

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• When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

  Don Nickles

  Country, Technology, Mad

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• Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Travel, Light, Space

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Fabric Of Life, Earth Day

  Silent Spring ch. 17 (1962)

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• Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Typical, Chemical Reactions, Cases

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• The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.

  John Polkinghorne

  Years, Raw Materials, Fabric

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• We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Hands, Drug

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