Quotes by category:Radiation

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

radiation energy sun

I danced through chemo and radiation cycles.

Ananda Shankar Jayant

radiation cycles healthcare

Folic acid deficiency does the same thing as radiation.

Bruce Ames

acid radiation doe

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

Buzz Aldrin

radiation mars people

One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.

Buzz Aldrin

radiation space long

I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

Carly Fiorina

chemotherapy radiation cancer

I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.

Cary Elwes

radiation machines cameras

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

Charles Stross

radiation space long

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

Charles W. Pickering

radiation training jobs

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.

Cynthia Nixon

radiation six half

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

radiation cancer insecurity

Radar, of course, is what cellphone radiation is exactly like. It can be a similar frequency, it's just much weaker power.

Devra Davis

radiation radar courses

Cellphone and other wireless radiation should be classified as a "probable human carcinogen."

Devra Davis

radiation humans should

Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence.

Dixie Lee Ray

exposed radiation littles

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

Ernest Lawrence

radiation tools suffering

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

Ernest Lawrence

radiation groups men

Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.

Fannie Hurst

radiation light giving

It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Farrah Fawcett

radiation stressful easier

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

Gail Devers

radiation illness disease

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

radiation cancer risk