#chemicals

As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#life #nature #life

An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#chemicals #control #could #critical #derail

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#body #breakfast-of-champions #chemicals #human #kurt-vonnegut

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. ↗

— Keith Henson

#behaviour #brains #chemicals #flooding #generations

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success. ↗

— Keith Henson

#attention #brain #chemicals #improves #leads

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins. ↗

— Keith Henson

#because #brain #causes #chemicals #highly

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. ↗

— David Hockney

#chemicals #ended #episode #era #fixed

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#atmosphere #been #chemicals #condition #environmental

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans. ↗

— Delia Smith

#good #process #tend

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#bad #because #chemical #chemicals #died