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Quotes from The Pursuit of Simplicity — Edward Teller

d. 2003 Hungary

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Total security has never been available to anyone. To expect it is unrealistic; to imagine that it can exist is to invite disaster.

The Pursuit of Simplicity (1981)

The preservation of peace and the improvement of the lot of all people require us to have faith in the rationality of humans.

The Pursuit of Simplicity (1981)

By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact.
It is a statement of faith.

The Pursuit of Simplicity (1981)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Teller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.