Edward Teller Quotes

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute to ourselves, our family, to our communities, etc. - you also contribute to the basic development and evolution of humanity.

Science is organized knowledge.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

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

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn’t have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.

Believe that you may understand.

If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.