Martin Fleischmann

It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list…

— Martin Fleischmann

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

— Martin Fleischmann

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and…

— Martin Fleischmann

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the…

— Martin Fleischmann

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

— Martin Fleischmann

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

— Martin Fleischmann

I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases…

— Martin Fleischmann

Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that…

— Martin Fleischmann

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

— Martin Fleischmann

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

— Martin Fleischmann

If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave…

— Martin Fleischmann

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea…

— Martin Fleischmann

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found…

— Martin Fleischmann

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind…

— Martin Fleischmann

So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario:…

— Martin Fleischmann

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

— Martin Fleischmann

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

— Martin Fleischmann

At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.

— Martin Fleischmann

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of…

— Martin Fleischmann

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

— Martin Fleischmann

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are…

— Martin Fleischmann

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

— Martin Fleischmann