Derek Barton
Chemist
"Every chemical reaction has a transition state."
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Chemicals
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise."
Ivan Pavlov
Physiologist
"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices."
Ayn Rand
Philosopher, Novelist
"What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur."
David Wolfe
Nutritionist
"The cosmetic industry seems to be a wholesale dumping ground for just about every single type of chemical that exists."
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"I was in chemical jail."
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"The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans."
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"The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of."
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"It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on."
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"What is true is [Bashar] Assad got rid of his chemical weapons."
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"You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals."
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"When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle."
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"The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something."
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"What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation."
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"We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?"
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"Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof."
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"Chemical waste products are the droppings of science."
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