Famous Quotes & Sayings

Succinate is a high-priority chemical that the U.S. Department of Energy has targeted for biosynthesis.

Some of these children have eaten batteries, clothes, blankets, mattresses, wood, carpets, chemicals and anything they could obtain, which is why the kitchen cupboards are locked,

Charles Davis

I think (this crime) was a direct result of his chemical dependency.

Ato Essandoh

I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering.

David Gregory

I think she is doing a fantastic job at trying to drag the chemical industry into the 21st century, yet retaining a pragmatism which her role demands.

If in fact today in Washington, D.C., someone hopped on the radio and said there's been a chemical release, someone will tell you to stay, others will tell you to leave. Who are you going to believe?

From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.

David Rosenberg

Katrina's effects are being felt nationally-on the nation's transportation arteries, supply chains, chemical plants, airlines, leisure/hotels, gasoline prices everywhere and retailing. The commercial impact is widespread.

It could be a chemical spill, a train derailment,

Go home and identify all the chemicals in your house. It's a very long list.

This was not from explosive materials, but from chemicals at the laboratory, maybe mixed with gas.

There is no chemical evidence, no physiological expert listed to indicate steroid usage and its effects.

The provincial government has set up a special team to investigate the accusations of pollution and shut down those chemical plants thought responsible.

Douglas Coupland

Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

One of our objectives will be to put a chemical plant on Mars

Craig Venter

One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents.

My father, Kaneki, was a gifted research director of a chemical company, and his profession strongly influenced the path of my life.

Now we've got everything like chemical suits and tools on this truck, ... It does everything except fight fires. The red ones put out the fires.

Since there are so many different environments in the soil, the likelihood of finding different organisms and different chemistries is high. The world is full of microorganisms that have learned, chemically, how to get along, how to communicate with, how to influence other animals. It might turn out that they're making chemical molecules that turn out to be useful to people.

Many household chemicals meet at least one of these criteria to varying degrees.

Bruce Bennett

So having thousands of tons of chemical weapons is an immense quantity.

Yakov Smirnoff

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.

I'm a member of the American Chemical Society, and in its magazine, the 'Chemical and Engineering News,' there was an interview of Vince Gilligan when he had first started the television show 'Breaking Bad.' And in that interview, he was stating how important it was to him that he get the science right for the show.

Vladimir Prelog

The period 1924 to 1929 was spent studying chemistry at the Czech Institute of Technology in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The supervisor of my thesis was Professor Emil Votocek, one of the prominent founders of chemical research in Czechoslovakia.

Alex Steffen

We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.

Ban Ki-moon

I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.

We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.

We are not mixing our chemicals in Orange County in a tank next to million-dollar homes.

Ben Okri

Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

Ban Ki-moon

Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.