Edward Teller Quotes

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• It is often claimed that knowledge multiplies so rapidly that nobody can follow it. I believe this is incorrect. At least in science it is…
• The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
• [Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.
• Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
• Today's science is tomorrow's technology.
• 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…
• In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed…
• 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…
• Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.
• On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda…
• 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.
• The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
• The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
• U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.
• Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know.…
• 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…
• Physics without mathematics is meaningless.
• 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…
• I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
• Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

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