Quotes about chemical (317 quotes, page 4)

“I'm a conscious eater, meaning I'm conscious about the things I put in my mouth. I know the ingredients in the food, I know the chemicals, if there are chemicals, I know what that cup is made of, and if I'm eating out of this plastic utensil, I know what it's doing. I'm a "conscious eater."”

Waka Flocka Flame (1986) American rapper and comedian

Video interview https://www.tmz.com/2018/01/25/waka-flocka-flame-not-vegan-new-diet/ with TMZ (25 January 2018); as quoted in "Drake, Chadwick And Other Famous Black Men Who’ve Gone Vegetarian And Vegan" https://madamenoire.com/1018881/drake-famous-men-vegetarian-vegan/6/, MadameNoire (22 March 2018).

Food

“Look, whatever else happiness is, it’s also some kind of chemical reaction. Your body making and experiencing a cocktail of hormones and other molecules in response to stimulus. Brain reward. A thing that feels good when you do it. We’ve had millions of years of evolution that gave a reproductive edge to people who experienced pleasure when something pro-survival happened. Those individuals did more of whatever made them happy, and if what they were doing more of gave them more and hardier offspring, then they passed this on.”
“Yes,” I said. “Sure. At some level, that’s true of all our emotions, I guess.”

Cory Doctorow (1971) Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author

“I don’t know about that,” she said. “I’m just talking about happiness. The thing is, doing stuff is pro-survival—seeking food, seeking mates protecting children, thinking up better ways to hide from predators...Sitting still and doing nothing is almost never pro-survival, because the rest of the world is running around, coming up with strategies to outbreed you, to outcompete you for food and territory...If you stay still, they’ll race past you.”
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 130

Happiness , People , Pleasure , Making love

“We need to talk about more than just the health care plan. We need to realize we have a sickness care rather than a health care system. We need to be the party talking about why so many of our chemical policies and our food policies and our agricultural policies and our environment policies and even our economic policies are leading to people sick to begin with.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Quoted in We Desperately Need Marianne Williamson’s Message, https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/marianne-williamson-2020-presidential-campaign/ The Intercept, Jon Schwarz (5 August 2019)

People , Health , Food

“The Greek prefix syn ("together with"), as in synthesis, synergy, syntropy, becomes increasingly meaningful. When things come together something new happens. In relationship there is novelty, creativity, richer complexity. Whether we are talking about chemical reactions or human societies, molecules or international treaties, there are qualities that cannot be predicted by looking at the components.”

Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Six, Liberating Knowledge: News from the Frontiers of Science

“Metamorphosis is death. Inside a pupa larval flesh breaks down utterly, as if in chemical spill. Eyes do not become other eyes nor mouthparts mouths. All parts are lost in a reconfiguring slop, as absolutely formless as a salted slug, that ex liquid nihilo self-organizes into a quite other animal. A cocoon is not a transformation pod but an execution chamber, one that doubles as a birthplace, and is parsimonious with matter.”

China Miéville book The 9th Technique

The 9th Technique (p. 104)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

Animals , Self-confidence , Death , Parting

“What undoubtedly was an even more sensitive venture was the use of chemical and biological weapons against Cuba by the United States....The full extent of American chemical and biological warfare against Cuba will never be known. Over the years, the Castro government has in fact blamed the United States for a number of other plagues which afflicted various animals and crops. And in 1977, newly-released CIA documents disclosed that the Agency "maintained a clandestine anti-crop warfare research program targeted during the 1960s at a number of countries..."”

William Blum (1933–2018) American author and historian

Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, Chapter 30. Cuba 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution

Animals , Affliction , Country

“The price of chemical ecstasy was a dear one, paid in flesh and spirit.”

Steven Barnes (1952) American writer and author

Source: Street Lethal (1983), Chapter 5 “Knight Takes Pawn” (pp. 64-65)

“[S]ince vegetal fat is identical chemically with animal fat, and vegetal protein with animal protein, since these substances are found abundantly in non-flesh products, and since the only other food substances used by man (starch and sugar) are not found except in plants and plant products, it may be asserted positively that from the standpoint of food-supply there is no reason why man should prey when he eats. The plant world contains all of the compounds necessary for human alimentation, it contains them abundantly, it contains them in forms of the highest delicacy and the greatest variety and economy, and it contains them in a much more prime condition than they are found in the diseased tissues of our mistreated servants.”

J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)

Source: The New Ethics (1907), What Shall We Eat?, pp. 92–93

World , Animals , Disease , Food

“When we consider that resources will one day be mined from planets other than the earth, that matter and energy are totally interchangeable, and that basic chemical elements can be transmuted, we realize that resource seeds are so abundant that they do not impose practical limitations on the creation of wealth at all.”

Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist

Source: Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression, (2003), p. 19

Wealth

“There are neither graves nor death in Nature; there are various forms of existence, some of which enable us to be chemists, others only chemical substances.”

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

The Doll

Nature , Death

“Life consists of the interplay of two kinds of chemicals: proteins and DNA.”

Matt Ridley book Genome

Source: Genome (1999), Chapter 1 “Life” (p. 17)

Life

“You know how vivid things are in extremis. There's something going on in the brain. Chemicals. They make the moment indelible."”

Bernard MacLaverty book Midwinter Break

Ch 9 - p.187
Novels, Midwinter Break (2017)

“Life, we now know, is nothing but a vast array of coordinated chemical reactions. The “secret” to that coordination is the breathtakingly complex set of instructions inscribed—again, chemically—in our DNA.”

James D. Watson (1928) American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.

Coda: Our Genes and Our Future (p. 430)
Source: DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution (2003/2017)

Secret , Life

“Burying nuclear, chemical and solid Israeli waste poses danger to the environment and to people's health.”

Mohammad Shtayyeh (1958) Palestinian politician

Source: Mohammad Shtayyeh (2021) cited in: " PA calls for probing Israel's disposal of hazardous nuclear waste in the occupied territories https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20211208-pa-calls-for-probing-israels-disposal-of-hazardous-nuclear-waste-in-the-occupied-territories/" in Middle East Monitor, 8 December 2021.

Health , People

“We’re clusters of chemical reactions that contemplate deep truths about the nature of reality.”

Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)

Source: The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (2018), p. 15

Truth , Reality , Nature

“Four pails of water and a bagful of salts.
That is all we are, that is all a man comprises,
chemicals alone, with no spirit, soul or ghost -
nothing so bizarre.
No amount of faith disguises
what is true is what we fear the most”

Judge Smith (1948) English songwriter, composer, performer

"Four Pails"

Soul , Water , Fear , Faith

“Volcanic ash, despite the name, is dense as rock and can cause significant damage to structures, power lines and communications. It is also toxic because it contains chemicals such as sulfur, chlorine or fluorine, and it can therefore affect water supplies.”

Marco Brenna researcher, ORCID id # 0000-0001-6096-6999

Source: Marco Brenna (2022) cited in: " Force ‘astonishing’: volcanologist https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/force-%E2%80%98astonishing%E2%80%99-volcanologist" in Otago Daily Times, 17 January 2022.

Communication , Water

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