#radiation

You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation. ↗

— Dick Dale

#eat #fish #million #over #parts

At my age, the radiation will probably do me good. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#good #me #probably #radiation #will

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation. ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#cancer #chemotherapy #even #everything #going

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#bang #big #big bang #cooking #good

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. ↗

— John Hersey

#blast #body #broke #burns #caused

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

#carried #cosmic #fundamental #general #importance

It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity. ↗

— John Cameron

#likely #longevity #more #need #our

Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand. ↗

— John Cameron

#chest #explain #few #many #patient

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health. ↗

— John Cameron

#am #better #certain #health #i

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology. ↗

— John Cameron

#believed #dose #effort #entered #field