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Edward Teller Quotes

Type:
Physicist Quotes
Category:
American Physicist Quotes
Date of Birth:
January 15, 1908
Date of Death:
September 9, 2003
Nationality:
American
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Edward Teller

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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
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

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
Edward Teller

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Edward Teller

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 fight, you usually win.
Edward Teller

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Edward Teller

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
Edward Teller

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Edward Teller

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

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Edward Teller


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