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

—  Isaac Asimov

As quoted in The Journal of NIH Research (1990), 2, 30
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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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