Edward Teller Quotes

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

Science, Simple, Everyone

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

Life, Wrong, Goes

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

Simple, Worthwhile, Endeavor

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
Edward Teller

Addiction, Once, Accepted

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

Science, Technology, Today

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

May, Two, Solution

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

Real, Regrets, Speaking

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

Good, Experience, End

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

Science, Everything, Understand

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

Defeat, Tried, Contribute

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

Simple, Physics, Hopefully

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: January 15, 1908

Died: September 9, 2003

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