Harold Urey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.
-- Harold Urey

#Feet #Cities #History
All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex to have evolved anywhere. We all believe as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that life's complexity is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it did.
-- Harold Urey

#Believe #Matter #Looks
Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.
-- Harold Urey

#Regret #Soul #Guilt
I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb] ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs.
-- Harold Urey

#Powerful #Discovery #Neon
[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.
-- Harold Urey

#Cost #Research #Pennies
Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth.
-- Harold Urey

#Miracle #Earth #Life Is
I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?
-- Harold Urey

#Pittsburgh
[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.
-- Harold Urey

#Intelligent #Race #Doubt

Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
What are you doing?" "I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot.
When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in the following products: Sunny Delight, Mountain Dew, and Thick-Crust Pizza. Only the 'tardiest of the 'tards like the thick crust.
Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

Harold Urey famous quotes

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