A Quote by Linus Pauling

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

Linus Pauling

Quote Topics

Amount Even Harm Radiation Safe Small Small Amounts

Quote Author

Linus Pauling
American - Scientist
February 28, 1901 - August 19, 1994

There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.

John Gofman

Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But , as the US National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII report has concluded, no dose of radiation is safe, however small, including background radiation; exposure is cumulative and adds to an individual's risk of developing cancer.

Helen Caldicott

There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.

William Scranton

Radiation doesn't recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates the radiation everywhere. Water quality is affected. We all eat the same fish. We use products from all over the world - if something is contaminated, it will cause harm.

Wladimir Klitschko

Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled. Radiation is dangerous, let there be no mistake about that-but the modern world abounds in dangerous substances and situations too numerous to mention. ... Consider radiation as something to be treated with respect, avoided when practicable, and accepted when inevitable.

Ralph Lapp

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Francis Bacon

...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.

Rosalie Bertell

Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.

Andy Andrews

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

Ann Coulter

Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation.

Grant Imahara

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the ? radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the ? radiation.

Ernest Rutherford

Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects, and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which...cannot be trusted.

John Gofman

He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up a small yellow fish and offering to put it in his ear he had been able to see just a small packet of cornflakes. But he couldn't, and he didn't feel safe.

Douglas Adams

Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.

Stephen Hawking

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

Louise Erdrich

A Quote by Linus Pauling

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors