Chemicals Quotes

• Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Thinking, Computer

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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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• 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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• Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

  Angela Merkel

  Hurt, Thinking, Example

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

  Garrett Hardin

  Rights, Population, Calling

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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• Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.

  Marilu Henner

  Vegetables, Energy, Negative

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• Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.

  Marilu Henner

  Swings, Brain, Balance

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• It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Children, Impact, Community

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• Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

  Philip Guedalla

  Men, Littles, Chemical Compounds

  Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”

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• If the Bush Administration cannot ensure Americans that they will be safe from the flu, how will they protect our country against a possible bio-terror or chemical attack? The American people deserve better.

  Jon Corzine

  Country, People, Deserve Better

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• Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.

  Hugh Shelton

  War, Hands, Nuclear

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• 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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• 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 the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Firsts, Proof, Century

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• I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute.

  George Andrew Olah

  Groups, Research, Able

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Environmental Factors, People

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

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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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• I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.

  Erika Christensen

  Smart, Thinking, People

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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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• The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Development, Chemical Reactions, Distinction

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• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Betrayal, Government, Media

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Views, Water, Substance

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