Hydrogen Quote by Edward Teller

“Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.”

Edward Teller

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings)

More by Edward Teller

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

Edward Teller

Image

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

Edward Teller

Image

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

Edward Teller

Image

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

Edward Teller

Image

Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not…

Edward Teller

Image

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 to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical…

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 still out.

Edward Teller

Image

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

Edward Teller

Image

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

Edward Teller

Image

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

Edward Teller

Image

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

Edward Teller

Image

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

Edward Teller

Image

Explore all 55 Edward Teller quotes

More Hydrogen quotes

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose…

Erich Fromm

You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to a fire balloon: do you prefer crash and burn, or burn and crash? But sometimes it works, and something new is made, and the world is changed. Then, at some point, sooner or later, for…

Julian Barnes

“…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate the amount they're exhaling rectally. This is because a fixed percentage of hydrogen produced in the colon is absorbed into the blood and, and when it reaches the lungs, exhaled. The breath hydrogen test has given…

Mary Roach

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask…

Jill Tarter

Image

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.

Todd Rundgren

Image

In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are…

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

Image

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of…

George Sweeting

Image

So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just maybe, could…

Sam Kean

Image

The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a number of conditions, the most important of which…

August Krogh

Image

Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen,…

Andrew Nikiforuk

Image

A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it…

Michio Kaku