Edward Teller

I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be…

— Edward Teller

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

— Edward Teller

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

— Edward Teller

By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some…

— Edward Teller

Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I…

— Edward Teller

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

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

— Edward Teller

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I…

— Edward Teller

“Engineers are, by definition, people whose work is dedicated to making people's lives easier; or, as people used to say, whose work…

— Edward Teller

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have…

— Edward Teller

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

— Edward Teller

It is often claimed that knowledge multiplies so rapidly that nobody can follow it. I believe this is incorrect. At least in…

— Edward Teller

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we…

— Edward Teller

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the…

— Edward Teller

There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they…

— Edward Teller

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

— Edward Teller

No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller.

— Edward Teller

If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no…

— Edward Teller

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

— Edward Teller

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

— Edward Teller

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

— Edward Teller

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

— Edward Teller

In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.…

— Edward Teller

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

— Edward Teller

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

— Edward Teller