The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However,… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they,… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical… — Edward Teller Copy Share
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. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“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… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
It is often claimed that knowledge multiplies so rapidly that nobody can follow it. I believe this is incorrect. At least in science it… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
