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Dixy Lee Ray
(3 Sep 1914 - 2 Jan 1994)
American marine biologist who was the first female chair (1973-75) of the Atomic Energy Commission and supported nuclear power.
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Science Quotes by Dixy Lee Ray (4)
A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. (1977)
— Dixy Lee Ray
Quoted in G. Barry Golson (ed.) The Playboy Interview (1981).
Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence..
— Dixy Lee Ray
Quoted in 'Dixy Lee Ray, 79, Ex-Governor; Led Atomic Energy Commission' obituary, New York Times (3 Jan 1994).
See also: | Radiation (7)
If our tongues were as sensitive as these radiation detectors, we could easily taste one drop of vermouth in five carloads of gin.
— Dixy Lee Ray
Quoted in Esther Stineman, American Political Women (1980).
See also: | Radiation (7)
Nature did not make me willowy.
— Dixy Lee Ray
Quoted in 'Defeat for Dixy Lee Ray', Time (29 Sep 1980).
See also: | Autobiography (42)
