American - Physicist | January 15, 1908 - September 9, 2003
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller
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Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
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No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
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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.
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The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
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Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
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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.
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Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
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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.
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I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
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