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Edward Teller [1908-2003] American
Rank: 102
Physicist, Theoretical Physicist


Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who was born in Hungary, and is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he claimed he did not care for the title. 

Science, Experience, Good, Technology



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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. Science, Technology
101
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. Science
102
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
103
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. Experience, Good
104
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.
105
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
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The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
107
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
108
I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.
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Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
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Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
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