Character Quote by Ernest Rutherford

Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn…

— Ernest Rutherford

Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled.…

— Ralph Lapp

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

— Linus Pauling

“Isotopes of radium, the first nuclear radiation sources to be commercially exploited, are probably the worst examples out of thousands of radioactive isotopes.”

— James Mahaffey

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.

— John Cameron

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to…

— Marie Curie

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

— Isaac Asimov

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity…

— Walther Bothe

“radioactive Rubidium-87, containing 37 protons (and 50 neutrons), can change or decay to strontium, which has 38 protons. These two elements can be thought…

— Bill Nye

“Filling out the entire electromagnetic spectrum, in order of low-energy and low-frequency to high-energy and high-frequency, we have: radio waves, micro waves, ROYGBIV, ultra…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation…

— Charles Glover Barkla