Radiation Quotes
129 quotes by 98 authors
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I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process of…
— Gilbert N. Lewis
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All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.
— Hildegard of Bingen
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The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The longest waves of…
— Arthur Eddington
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When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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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…
— Walther Bothe
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With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear…
— Ann Coulter
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..Radiation...the biggest lobby ...in the world. It's involved in university research. ...industries...the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, and the economic and military policy…
— Rosalie Bertell
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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…
— Ernest Rutherford
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Radiation doesn't recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates the radiation everywhere. Water quality…
— Wladimir Klitschko
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Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations,…
— Matt Groening
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It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have…
— Mary McCarthy
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For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the…
— Max von Laue
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In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat…
— Pope Pius XII
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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
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Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.
— Isaac Asimov
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There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a…
— Nina Fedoroff
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson…
— Carl David Anderson
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...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.
— Rosalie Bertell
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