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Firsts Quotes by Edward Teller
- [Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.
- 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…
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