Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine Lavoisier

While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.

Joel Salatin

We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.

Bill Richardson

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.

When the government announces these chemicals are unsafe on food they're ... announcing, in effect, that the farm groups and chemical companies who have said there is no problem were wrong,

The first unquestionable proofs of the transformation of elements into different chemical elements have been provided by the study of the phenomena of radioactivity.

Gloria Steinem

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

Jason Robert Brown

There are actors I have very strong chemical responses to, and I strive always to figure out ways to work with them and get them to sing my stuff.

Jeremy Rifkin

When you introduce a genetically modified organism into the environment, it's not like introducing a chemical product, or even a nuclear product.

This tandem configuration gets rid of a lot of chemical 'noise',

This year's second-quarter results benefited from higher liquids production, increased petroleum product and chemical sales volumes, and improved downstream margins.

Orson Scott Card

I am a creature of chemicals.

Irving Kirsch

The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.

Donella Meadows

If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

While organic foods aren't necessarily more nutritious, eating them means you'll be consuming fewer chemicals (and consequently, so will baby).

We've got such a chemical soup out there, and he's doing a great job determining what's in that soup.

Only two of the 10 industry groups surveyed this month - chemicals and metal products - expect prices to rise in their sector over the coming three months. Cost pressures from high oil and transportation prices will only serve to depress profits further,

We know that these chemicals are toxic. And we know that they're exceeding the levels the government has set for these chemicals in water,

Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

Unguarded chemical plants are a clear and present danger that must be addressed.

Richard Foreman

the experts as a whole said the whole picture is that Iraq put chemical weapons in these warheads.

Asa Hutchinson

What if the chemical sector was targeted instead of the financial sector?

We were looking to get chemicals off the streets, away from kids. However, we did get the labs, we hope all of them,

Jalal Talabani

We are finding new mass graves every day. Saddam Hussein committed a crime by using chemical weapons... He waged two wars on Iran and Kuwait. He murdered and executed hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis.

Eduard Buchner

As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.

There is a power plant on North Lake that uses toxic chemicals, that's no secret. Are those chemicals released into the lake or on the property? We have a right to know.

We really don't know if human consumption of that chemical is dangerous per se, so it's premature to say. We don't move on taking it out of the food stores yet. Further studies are necessary to identify the ultimate outcomes.

Kenichi Fukui

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.

Kenichi Fukui

This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams.

Sandy Berger

There is no question in my mind that the Sudanese factory was producing chemicals that can be used in VX gas,

There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.

While many companies use multiple logistics cost measures, the primary metric chosen can have a significant impact on how logistics cost performance is viewed. For example, those companies using logistics costs as a percent of sales as their primary measure and who operate in industries such as chemicals and other commodities saw that cost ratio fall in 2005 due to strong upward pricing power that impacted the top line, even though logistics costs also rose. Other industries had rising logistics costs with flat or declining prices for their products, driving up logistics costs as a percent of sales.

We were delighted with the outcome of this important event, which took place at a critical moment for global petrochemicals supply and demand. The Middle East will become pivotal in global chemicals trade and the location of many exciting new projects, sponsored by regional governments as well as the private sector.

Union Pacific's exposure to the chemical industry is the highest of all the rails, so it had the most to lose from Hurricane Rita.