Quote by James Mahaffey Download Open image ““For a human, the lethal dose is about a tenth of a gram.”” — James Mahaffey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There is no substance which is not a poison; all are poisonous. Only the dose determines.” — Philippus Theophrastus Copy Share Image
“But of course, the ultimate effect was death. The only trick was figuring the right dosage.” — Charles Graeber Copy Share Image
“Why then had I heard nothing? Everyone knows that the killing of a human being requires the exertion of a certain amount of mechanical… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“We have a tendency, under time pressure, to apply overdoses of established measures.” — Dietrich Dörner Copy Share Image
“We find a tendency, under time pressure, to apply overdoses of established measures.” — Dietrich Dorner Copy Share Image
“Like me, it is comfortably lethal in a wide range of environments.” — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“All things are poison and nothing is without poison. Only the dose determines whether something is poisonous or not.” — Joanne Owen Copy Share Image
“I occasionally laugh and tell him that his imperturbability is worth three hundred milligrams of lithium a day to me, and it is probably… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The minimum effective dose (MED) is defined simply: the smallest dose that will produce a desired outcome.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“male workers were thought incapable of sitting still for hours at a time to do anything useful.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“However, in very low doses strychnine can act as a nerve stimulant, and I can see how Bailey, and most likely others, saw it… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“In general, nuclear workers are allowed to absorb 5 rem per year, and civilians are allowed 0.5 rem per year.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“it is correct to remind them of the British Blue Peacock nuclear weapon, in which the batteries were kept warm by two chickens living… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It's a good thing we won the war. If we hadn't, I'd be hanged as a war criminal" -- Gen Curtis LeMay, quoted by… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“Seeing the value of publication shown by Röntgen’s disclosure, he wrote three articles for the Electrical Review in 1896 describing what it felt like… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out grappling hooks,… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“An arsenic compound is still used to treat promyelocytic leukemia, and the isotope arsenic-74 is used as a radioactive tracer to find tumors.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“Nuclear rockets capable of sending a fully equipped colony to Mars in one shot were designed.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“Ivan Pulyui, a college professor at the University of Vienna from the Ukraine, is sometimes credited with having sold the first x-ray tubes, before… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
