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Edward Teller
American
Physicist
About the author
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
Edward Teller,
American
Physicist
#Science
#Purpose
#Simplicity
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
Edward Teller,
American
Physicist
#Physics
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Edward Teller,
American
Physicist
#May
#Solution
#Paradoxes
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller,
American
Physicist
#Technology
#Today
#Science
#Tomorrow
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Edward Teller,
American
Physicist
#Secrecy
#Addiction
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Edward Teller,
American
Physicist
#Right
#Will
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,
American
Physicist
#Years
#End
#Experience
#Fight
#Cause
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Edward Teller,
American
Physicist
#Life
#Wrong
I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
Edward Teller,
American
Physicist
#Defeat
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,
American
Physicist
#Now
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,
American
Physicist
#Fact