Edward Teller Quotes

The ... progress of improvement and discovery ought not to be overlooked. ... Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power. ... We are on the eve of mechanical discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Society has come to expect that American science and engineering will contribute to the general economic and social welfare.

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?

Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.

Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Today's advanced STEM graduate could be tomorrow's world-class, world-changing scientist.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

One can not impede scientific progress.

There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.