Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yakov Smirnoff

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.

I'm a member of the American Chemical Society, and in its magazine, the 'Chemical and Engineering News,' there was an interview of Vince Gilligan when he had first started the television show 'Breaking Bad.' And in that interview, he was stating how important it was to him that he get the science right for the show.

Vladimir Prelog

The period 1924 to 1929 was spent studying chemistry at the Czech Institute of Technology in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The supervisor of my thesis was Professor Emil Votocek, one of the prominent founders of chemical research in Czechoslovakia.

We know that these chemicals are toxic. And we know that they're exceeding the levels the government has set for these chemicals in water,

Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

We've got such a chemical soup out there, and he's doing a great job determining what's in that soup.

Ato Essandoh

I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering.

David Gregory

I think she is doing a fantastic job at trying to drag the chemical industry into the 21st century, yet retaining a pragmatism which her role demands.

Unguarded chemical plants are a clear and present danger that must be addressed.

Only two of the 10 industry groups surveyed this month - chemicals and metal products - expect prices to rise in their sector over the coming three months. Cost pressures from high oil and transportation prices will only serve to depress profits further,

If in fact today in Washington, D.C., someone hopped on the radio and said there's been a chemical release, someone will tell you to stay, others will tell you to leave. Who are you going to believe?

From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.

Go home and identify all the chemicals in your house. It's a very long list.

David Rosenberg

Katrina's effects are being felt nationally-on the nation's transportation arteries, supply chains, chemical plants, airlines, leisure/hotels, gasoline prices everywhere and retailing. The commercial impact is widespread.

It could be a chemical spill, a train derailment,

This was not from explosive materials, but from chemicals at the laboratory, maybe mixed with gas.

There is no chemical evidence, no physiological expert listed to indicate steroid usage and its effects.

Jalal Talabani

We are finding new mass graves every day. Saddam Hussein committed a crime by using chemical weapons... He waged two wars on Iran and Kuwait. He murdered and executed hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis.

We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons.

Sandy Berger

There is no question in my mind that the Sudanese factory was producing chemicals that can be used in VX gas,

There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.

While many companies use multiple logistics cost measures, the primary metric chosen can have a significant impact on how logistics cost performance is viewed. For example, those companies using logistics costs as a percent of sales as their primary measure and who operate in industries such as chemicals and other commodities saw that cost ratio fall in 2005 due to strong upward pricing power that impacted the top line, even though logistics costs also rose. Other industries had rising logistics costs with flat or declining prices for their products, driving up logistics costs as a percent of sales.

With today's thin margins, aerial chemical applicators are cost prohibitive for me at $5 to 6 an acre.

We were delighted with the outcome of this important event, which took place at a critical moment for global petrochemicals supply and demand. The Middle East will become pivotal in global chemicals trade and the location of many exciting new projects, sponsored by regional governments as well as the private sector.

Union Pacific's exposure to the chemical industry is the highest of all the rails, so it had the most to lose from Hurricane Rita.

Eduard Buchner

As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.

The provincial government has set up a special team to investigate the accusations of pollution and shut down those chemical plants thought responsible.

Bernie Siegel

Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

Kenichi Fukui

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.

Kenichi Fukui

This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier orbitals in chemical reactions more distinct through visualization, by drawing their diagrams.

We really don't know if human consumption of that chemical is dangerous per se, so it's premature to say. We don't move on taking it out of the food stores yet. Further studies are necessary to identify the ultimate outcomes.

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

Antoine Lavoisier

While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.