Top 49 Edward Teller Quotes

#1. Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

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#2. By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact.It is a statement of faith.

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#3. Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

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#4. A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty until found effective.

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#5. Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

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#6. Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.

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#7. No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

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#8. I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

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#9. My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

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#10. A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

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#11. When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

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#12. Engineers are, by definition, people whose work is dedicated to making people's lives easier; or, as people used to say, whose work is dedicated to progress.

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#13. Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

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#14. There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

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#15. There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

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#16. When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

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#17. If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes

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#18. Really exotic methods of propulsion ... will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know. Whether it will be done, I am not quite certain. But I would bet it can be done.

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#19. The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.

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#20. Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

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#21. We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

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#22. The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

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#23. I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

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#24. I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

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#25. Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

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#26. Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

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#27. In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community ... That connection is a sense of life for me.

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#28. Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

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#29. Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

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#30. If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.

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#31. One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

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#32. The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

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#33. In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

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#34. Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.

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#35. When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

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#36. I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.

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#37. I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

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#38. When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

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#39. No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller.

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#40. [Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

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#41. The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

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#42. U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

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#43. I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

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#44. I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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#45. Nationalism has little to contribute today except further suffering.

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#46. There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be.

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#47. Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else.

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#48. I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

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#49. If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.

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