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The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

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

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

Nationalism has little to contribute today except further suffering.

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.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller.

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

Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.

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.

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

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

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

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

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

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

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

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.

If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.