Edward Teller Quotes
When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.
Teller, Edward, and Judith L. Shoolery. Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics. Perseus Publishing, 2001.
Note that Herder regarded foreign impressions and learning as not only desirable but important. Most extreme nationalists are xenophobic and fear any knowledge, law, ideas or understandings of other nations and cultures. Even in the United States, there are a few Americans who are terribly distressed whenever one of the participants in a legal case cites an opinion or study done in another country.
Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (see the Teller–Ulam design), although he did not care for the title, considering it poor taste. Throughout his life, Teller was known both for his scientific ability and for his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality.
