Quotes by Edward Teller

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.

Hydrogen Bomb

Real

Regret

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.

Believe

Despair

Evil

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

Ambition

Believe

Soul

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

Education

Pages

Thinking

If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes

Holes

Nuclear

Want

If there ever was a misnomer, it is “exact science.” Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.

Genius

Mistake

Science

In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed that the earth, instead of being stationary, was moving around at a great and variable speed in a universe that is much bigger than it appears to our immediate perception. That proposal, I believe, was first made by Aristarchos two millenia ago … Remarkably enough, the name Aristarchos in Greek means best beginning.

Believe

Mean

Moving

Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, ‘I’ll take along a bottle of whiskey.’ … I ended by asking, ‘What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?’ Bob replied, ‘Take a second bottle of whiskey.’

Atmosphere

Causes

Knowing

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

Catastrophe

Visible

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.

Courage

Fighting

Winning

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Accepted

Addiction

Ambition

Atmosphere

Believe

Cases

Catastrophe

Causes

Contradiction

Courage

Deeper

Defeat

Despair

Education

Evil

Extinction

Fighting

Fool Proof

Future

Genius

Global Warming

Heart

Holes

Hydrogen Bomb

Ignorance

Inability

Infamous

Inspirational

Islands

Knowing

Life

May

Mean

Mistake

Motivational

Moving

Nature

Next Day

Nuclear

Order

Pages

Paradox

Race

Real

Regret

Science

Secrecy

Should

Significant

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Quotes by Edward Teller

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.

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.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes

If there ever was a misnomer, it is “exact science.” Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.

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

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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