"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."

Body, Doctors

54

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Body quotes

"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Body,

"My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport."

Gabrielle Reece, American Athlete

Body,

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Body, Causes, Destruction

"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."

Jim Goad, Australian Author

Body, Hatred

"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."

George C. Williams, American Scientist

Body, End

"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Body, Mind, Prose

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Body, Mind, Nothing

"The body is the substance of the stone."

George Ripley, American Activist

Body,

"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."

Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator

Body, Enjoyment, Exercise, Mind

"The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind."

Menander, Greek Poet

Body, Mind, Words, Wounds

Explore more quotes by John Hersey

"Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it."

History

"The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels."

Body

"Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education."

Education

"All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle."

War

"It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense."

Failure

"Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock."

People

"And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped."

Nature

"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."

Body