top of page
"The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Science quotes

"We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do."

"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

"Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself."

"There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study."

"The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground."

"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."

"But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress."
Explore more quotes by Edward Teller

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."
bottom of page