(37 quotes found)
“We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.”
Wangari Maathai
“One of the things they do is bombard (organic materials, such as leather) with gamma rays radiation to kill whatever bacteria might be lurking inside of it, ... In some cases the artifacts are freeze-dried to achieve the same thing. In other cases they have to be placed in a biocide solution that kills the bacteria.”
Charles Haas
“Radiation, chemotherapy, surgery,”
Lisa Grant
“If you're at Venus, you have no protecting magnetic field, and this million-mile-an-hour stream of ionization radiation slams straight into the upper atmosphere of the planet.”
Chris Carr
“Because BCD galaxies are metal poor and very compact, the intense ultraviolet radiation from young stars will destroy PAH molecules even if they are formed. The threshold for when these PAH molecules stop being destroyed is still uncertain.”
Yanling Wu
“Haze doesn't just block the solar radiation. It is also infamous for acid rain and respiratory diseases.”
Yun Qian
“Two-and-half million curies of mostly localized radiation were released in the Chernobyl accident, ... There are five million curies in Pilgrim's reactor and 25 to 30 million curies of radiation in the spent-fuel pool. Most of that spent-fuel pool's radioactivity would be released into atmosphere if there was a fire, or 10 times the amount released in Chernobyl.”
Gordon Thompson
“[But Etheridge still had to have the lump removed. She still had to go through radiation and chemotherapy. And] you can't say 100% that you have been cured of breast cancer until you die at 95 of stroke, ... There's always the possibility of it coming back.”
Susan Love
“The kind of things we're looking at, for example, are materials that provide radiation shielding that would be used on space missions, including manned ones to Mars.”
William Kinard
“We've tried a lot of things. Surgery's gotten better and we deliver the radiation in a more sophisticated way. We've gotten better at handling the side effects of chemotherapy, and still the impact on the disease has been relatively small.”
Dr. Deborah Benzil
