All Edward Teller Quotes
- 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… Acceptance
- The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. Inspirational
- [Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. Carry
- Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. Attempts
- Today's science is tomorrow's technology. Science
- 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… Advances
- 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… Absurd
- 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… American
- Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution. Better
- 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… Accident
- 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. Carbon
- The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. Comprehend
- The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. Becoming
- U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor. Battle
- Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know.… Bet
- 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… Been
- Physics without mathematics is meaningless. Inspirational
- 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… Consequence
- I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous. Contribute
- Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not. Hopefully