Practical Value Quotes

“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.

[He was awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering deuterium.]”
― Harold Urey