There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. — 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
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. — 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… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.… — 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… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land." — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It… — 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… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
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
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