Carcinogens Quotes

“...[I]t is simply impossible to predict the effects of lifetime exposure to chemical and physical agents that are not part of the biological experience of man.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than you're likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!”
― Bruce Ames

“I propose that very high altitude exposure to the sea level adapted human be added to the list of class 2A probably carcinogens known to cause cancer in humans.”
― Steven Magee

“Our bodies, our cells, our genes are thus being immersed and reimmersed in a changing flux of molecules -- pesticides, pharmaceutical drugs, plastics, cosmetics, estrogens, food products, hormones, even novel forms of physical impulses, such as radiation and magnetism. Some of them will, inevitably, be carcinogenic. We cannot wish this world away: our task, then, is to sift through it vigilantly to discriminate bona fide carcinogens from innocent and useful bystanders.
This is easier said than done.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer