Edward Teller Quotes About Physics

Quotes about: Physics

• I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

  Edward Teller

  Simple, Common Sense, Way

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.2, Basic Books

• Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

  Edward Teller

  Physics, Mathematics, Meaningless

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.1, Basic Books

• In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed that the earth, instead of being stationary, was moving around at a great and variable speed in a universe that is much bigger than it appears to our immediate perception. That proposal, I believe, was first made by Aristarchos two millenia ago ... Remarkably enough, the name Aristarchos in Greek means best beginning.

  Edward Teller

  Believe, Moving, Mean

• Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

  Edward Teller

  Simple, Hydrogen Bomb, Physics

  "Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics" by Edward Teller, Wendy Teller and Wilson Talley, (Ch. 10, p. 150), 1991.

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