Urey Quotes

#1. I knew personally many figures in this novel: Harold Urey, who greeted me at the grad students reception at UCSD in 1963; Karl Cohen, my father-in-law;

Gregory Benford

#2. Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.

Mario Lemieux

#3. One may deal with things without love ... but you cannot deal with men without it ... It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. History will not judge our endeavors
and a government cannot be selected
merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these.

John F. Kennedy

#5. Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.

Daniel H. Pink

#6. 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.
[Stating how planets supporting life cannot be rare.]

Harold Urey

#7. But my point is, homosexual is genetic. 'Gay' is a choice. 'Gay' is the admitting to yourself that you are not only homosexual, but you embrace it. You find joy in it. You're thankful for it!

B.G. Thomas

#8. Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

Ann Leckie

#9. 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

#10. May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

Stephen King

#11. The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

Harold Urey

#12. [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

#13. I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.

Shuler Hensley

#14. [Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

Harold Urey

#15. In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.

Harold Urey

#16. Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.

Lou Holtz

#17. People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.

Paula McLain

#18. 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

#19. You're at a tricky age. Is it your parent's presence or your parent's absence that's more empowering? I'm no expert. I went from catching fireflies at your age to... well, adulthood.

Nancy Freund

#20. Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

Dan Quisenberry

#21. T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

#22. Every time I got hurt, the person who treated me said that. 'It is more attractive to admit that you're in pain.' Because of that person, I learned how to speak with honesty. Without making calculations about what the other person's thinking.

Joo

#23. Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

Harold Urey

#24. I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.

Charlaine Harris

#25. The space program is not only scientific in purpose but also is an expression of man's insistent determination to do the nearly impossible - to explore the unknown, even at great risk.

Harold Urey

#26. I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?

Harold Urey