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"15 Edward Teller Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 15 January 1908. Died: 9 September 2003 | Physicist |

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

Solution Paradoxes One Better
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Science Technology Today Tomorrow
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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.

Believe Believes Effective Everyone
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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

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

Endeavor Prospect Retrospect Right
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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.

Been Cause Desperate End
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Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Better Even May Paradoxes
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I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

Contribute Defeat Enormous I Tried
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Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Accepted Addiction Becomes Once
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Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

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

Becoming Everything Main More
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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.

Bomb Had Hydrogen No Regrets
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A stands for atom; it is so small No one has ever seen it at all. B stands for bomb; the bombs are much bigger, So, brother, do not be too fast on the trigger. H has become a most ominous letter. It means something bigger if not something better.

All Atom Mean Letter
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn’t get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you must do something about it.

Focus Future Optimist Right
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A scientific invention consists of six (or some number) ideas, five of which are absurd but which, with the addition of the sixth and enough rearrangement of the combinations, results in something no one has thought of before.

SCience Idea Enough Invention
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Everybody now wants to discover universal laws which will explain the structure and behavior of the nucleus of the atom. But actually our knowledge of the elementary particles that make up the nucleus is tiny. The situation calls for more modesty. We should first try to discover more about these elementary particles and about their laws. Then it will be the time for the major synthesis of what we really know, and the formulation of the universal law.

Universe Science Atom Knowledge
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I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Science Modern Simple
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Edward Teller Quotes & Sayings