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The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.
— Edward Teller
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
— Edward Teller
In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."
— Edward Teller
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
— Edward Teller
I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
— Edward Teller
I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.
— 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
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
— Edward Teller
Today's science is tomorrow's technology.
— Edward Teller
No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller.
— Edward Teller
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.
— Edward Teller
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.
— 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
If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.
— Edward Teller
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
— Edward Teller
I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.
— Edward Teller
Physics without mathematics is meaningless.
— Edward Teller
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
— Edward Teller
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
— Edward Teller
A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.
— Edward Teller
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
— Edward Teller
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[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.
— 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 talking about it.
— Edward Teller
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
— Edward Teller
There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
— 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
I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.
— Edward Teller
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
— Edward Teller