Radiation Quotes

I had a brain cancer specialist sit in my living room and tell me that he would never take radiation if he had a brain tumor. And I asked him, 'but, do you send people for radiation?' and he said, of course. 'I'd be drummed out of the hospital if I didn't.

Ralph W. Moss

Cancer, People, Brain

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Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

William George Jordan

Life Is, States, Constant

William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.16, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

Linus Pauling

Nuclear, Safe, Danger

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There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

Ann Coulter

Cancer, Government, Excess

"ANN COULTER: Don't Believe The Experts, Radiation Is Actually GOOD For You". www.businessinsider.com. March 18, 2011.

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The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.

Rachel Carson

Nature, Men, Sea

Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate.

Alonzo King

Stars, Ocean, Circles

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Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became big, green, and ugly.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Character, Science, Want

Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

Ernest Lawrence

Men, Groups, Fortune

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Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.

Charles W. Pickering

Cancer, Years, Disease

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Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

Isaac Asimov

Drinking, Science, Giving

The Journal of NIH Research, 2, p. 30, 1990.

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I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.

Nick Lampson

Mass Destruction, Borders, Weapons

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My girlfriend said, Just buy me something crazy and expensive, something I don't even need! So, I signed her up for radiation treatment.

Emo Philips

Girlfriend, Crazy, Needs

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I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

Mario Lemieux

Sports, Couple, Play

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Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

William Scranton

Ideas, People, Would Be

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Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

Walther Bothe

Nuclear, Nucleus, Information

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I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in that by dramatically strengthening the body's immune system through diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise, the body can rid itself of the cancer, just as it does in other degenerative diseases. Consequently, I wouldn't have chemotherapy and radiation because I'm not interested in therapies that cripple the immune system, and, in my opinion, virtually ensure failure for the majority of cancer patients.

Julian Whitaker

Cancer, Heart, Exercise

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The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charles W. Pickering

Quality, Hazards, Care

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[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the α radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the β radiation.

Ernest Rutherford

Character, Science, Two

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The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Sun, Energy, Source

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At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.

Norman Wisdom

Age

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being paranoid.

Conan O'Brien

Marijuana, Japan, California

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The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

Albert Pike

Sympathy, Law Of Attraction, Principles

Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

Walther Bothe

Energy, Nucleus, States

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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Jack Steinberger

Army, Special, Chicago

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The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

Walther Bothe

Complicated, Process, Cosmic

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