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

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
Corliss Lamont

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen Key

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Charles de Gaulle

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
Eddie Bernice Johnson

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.
Richard Carlson

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
James Madison

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.
George Combe

The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
Victor Francis Hess

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
Catherine Bell

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
Rene Dubos

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
Pierre Bourdieu

The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.
Mark E. Hyman

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand Russell

The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
Walter Rudolf Hess

The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects.
James Lind

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Margaret Mead

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
Freeman Dyson

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.
Peter R. Grant

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer