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Today we are engaged in a contest for human freedom. During the last war we crushed one type of totalitarian tyranny in a military sense, but the ideological fight has not been won, for we cannot eliminate ideas by physical means and yet maintain freedom of thought. Only better and more inspiring ideas can be used to fight tyrannical ideas.

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Most scientists think wars and national boundaries are a menace to the true creative spirit by which science must live, they hate war and they are terrified of atomic war — because they know its possibilities.

Harold Urey

The common assumption is that the earth and its atmosphere have always been as they are now, but if this is assumed it is necessary to account for the present highly oxidized conditions by some processes taking place early in the earth's history. Briefly, the highly oxidized condition is rare in the cosmos.

Harold Urey

To those of us who spend our lives working on scientific problems, science is a great intellectual adventure of such interest that nothing else we ever do can compare with it. We are attempting to understand the order of a physical universe, vast in extent in space and time, and most complicated and beautiful in its details.

Harold Urey

Harold Urey

Harold Urey

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Born: April 29, 1893

Died: January 5, 1981 (aged 87)

Bio: Harold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium.

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