Chemistry Quote by Harold Urey

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…

— Harold Urey

“I don’t know how Albert would have felt about this, but an unknown element was discovered in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Scientists expected that the Super, a fusion or "thermonuclear" weapon, would be an awesomely destructive horror that could unleash the equivalent of several million…

— James T. Patterson

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid…

— Joseph Rotblat

“It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether mankind benefits…

— Pierre Curie

I got into nuclear science when I was about 10 years old I was fascinated by the stuff. I was fascinated by the reactions…

— Taylor Wilson

“Self-discovery is among the greatest of discoveries, like atoms, electrons and neutrons, which cannot be seen but whose impact can either destroy billions of…

— Raj Suthar

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

— Benjamin Disraeli

“It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you…

— Ernest Rutherford

Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because…

— Richard Rhodes

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

— Isaac Asimov