Quotes About Chemicals

Every advance [in Science] will most likely tell us as much about ourselves as it will about the universe we inhabit. We are all collections of chemicals made in the cataclysmic explosions of stars; we are stardust, or nuclear waste, depending on your perspective.

Making energy creates waste, like exhaust from a car. That's the byproduct of running the engine. Your cells work the same way, but this biological exhaust comes in the form of what are called free radicals, which are chemicals that can damage your cells.

bodies contain salmon pollutants may take between fifty to seventy-five years to clear the chemicals from their bodies.

Not with your carbon, though, unless you like skin burns, convulsions, and liver damage.)

Here is the most important thing to understand about cravings: They are not caused by weak will or gluttony. Cravings are triggered by biological properties of the foods themselves. That is, certain foods have chemical makeups that cause us to crave them in very much the same way that drugs, alcohol, and tobacco have addictive components.

Never choose a man while under the influence of chemicals that mess with your brain, my friends. Never.

When you eat meat, you ingest not only the chemical substances that animals are full of, but also the emotional and physical stress that animals experience throughout their lives and at the moment of their slaughter. That stress is also part of your meat.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes either a poison or a remedy.

The air was heavy with unstable chemicals, mold, and the earthy stench of hashish. The fat of candles burned, great tears of wax spilling onto the sidewalk.

these drugs were initially derived from the nitrogen mustard gas experiments during World War I and World War II. These poisons—and that's exactly what they are—kill all fast-growing cells. Well, since cancer cells are fast growing, some genius decided to try these chemicals on cancer.

pharmacopoeia of drugs, hormones, and proscribed viral vectors.

All living things affect their environment by making and transforming chemicals, and

I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that human woe can be cured or soothed by chemicals. These chemicals do not alter or reform the ills of our civilisation. They adapt the human being to them.