Teller Ede idézet
Teller Ede
Születési dátum: 15. január 1908
Halál dátuma: 9. szeptember 2003
Teller Ede, angolosan: Edward Teller magyar–amerikai atomfizikus, aki élete jelentős részét az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban élte le, és sikereit is főként ott érte el. Legismertebb a hidrogénbomba-kutatásokban való aktív részvétele, emiatt mint „a hidrogénbomba atyja” vált közismertté.
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„Tudni, hogy nincsen cél, tudni, hogy nincs Isten; Félni, hogy talán még igazság sincsen; Tudni: az ész rövid, az akarat gyenge, hogy rá vagyok bízva a vak véletlenre, és makacs reménnyel mégis, mégis HINNI, hogy amit csinálok, az nem lehet semmi. És örülni tudni a nagy megnyugvásnak: a fájdalmat, örömöt gyógyító halálnak.“
— Teller Ede
Teller Edének tulajdonított mondatok
„Kérem, a pesszimista olyan ember, akinek mindig igaza van, de nincs benne öröme. Az optimista viszont olyan, aki azt képzeli, hogy a jövő bizonytalan. És én mindentől eltekintve azt mondom: az ember kötelessége, hogy optimista legyen! Mert ha azt képzeli, hogy a jövő bizonytalan, akkor úgy fog cselekedni, hogy a jövő jobb legyen. Én optimista vagyok…, s a jövőt úgy tekintem, mint nyersanyagot, amiből valamit teremteni kell.“
— Teller Ede
Teller Edének tulajdonított mondatok
„Amit nem értünk, azt véletlennek nevezzük.“
— Teller Ede
Teller Edének tulajdonított mondatok
„Félni nem kell, de óvatosnak lenni igen.“
— Teller Ede
Teller Edének tulajdonított mondatok
„Túl gyakran láttam, hogy a legokosabb emberek a legnagyobb hibákat képesek elkövetni.“
— Teller Ede
Teller Edének tulajdonított mondatok
„Két paradoxon jobb, mint egy. Lehet, hogy egy megoldást sugallnak.“
— Teller Ede
Teller Edének tulajdonított mondatok, Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
„Ne félj, van fejed, és van szíved. Ne félj. Én hiszek a fejemben és hiszek a szívemben, és hiszem, hogy együtt tudnak működni“
— Teller Ede
Teller Edének tulajdonított mondatok
„A pesszimista olyan ember, akinek mindig igaza van, de soha sincs öröme benne.“
— Teller Ede
Teller Edének tulajdonított mondatok
„Nem helyes hallgatni akkor, amikor tudok valamit és mások nem tudják.“
— Teller Ede
Teller Edének tulajdonított mondatok
„The preservation of peace and the improvement of the lot of all people require us to have faith in the rationality of humans.“
— Edward Teller
Context: The preservation of peace and the improvement of the lot of all people require us to have faith in the rationality of humans. If we have this faith and if we pursue understanding, we have not the promise but at least the possibility of success. We should not be misled by promises. Humanity in all its history has repeatedly escaped disaster by a hair's breadth. Total security has never been available to anyone. To expect it is unrealistic; to imagine that it can exist is to invite disaster. What we do have in our technological capacities is an opportunity to use our inventiveness, our creativity, our wisdom and our understanding of our fellow beings to create a future world that is a little better than the one in which we live today.
The Pursuit of Simplicity (1981), p. 151
Variant: Total security has never been available to anyone. To expect it is unrealistic; to imagine that it can exist is to invite disaster. I believe the most important aim for humanity at present is to avoid war, dictatorship, and their awful consequences.
Better a Shield Than A Sword : Perspectives On Defense And Technology (1987), p. 241
„But when the temperature does rise by a few degrees over the whole globe, there is a possibility that the icecaps will start melting and the level of the oceans will begin to rise.“
— Edward Teller
Context: At present the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by 2 per cent over normal. By 1970, it will be perhaps 4 per cent, by 1980, 8 per cent, by 1990, 16 per cent [about 360 parts per million, by Teller’s accounting], if we keep on with our exponential rise in the use of purely conventional fuels. By that time, there will be a serious additional impediment for the radiation leaving the earth. Our planet will get a little warmer. It is hard to say whether it will be 2 degrees Fahrenheit or only one or 5.
But when the temperature does rise by a few degrees over the whole globe, there is a possibility that the icecaps will start melting and the level of the oceans will begin to rise. Well, I don’t know whether they will cover the Empire State Building or not, but anyone can calculate it by looking at the map and noting that the icecaps over Greenland and over Antarctica are perhaps five thousand feet thick.
As quoted in Benjamin Franta, "On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/01/on-its-hundredth-birthday-in-1959-edward-teller-warned-the-oil-industry-about-global-warming, ', 1 January 2018.
„Total security has never been available to anyone. To expect it is unrealistic; to imagine that it can exist is to invite disaster.“
— Edward Teller
Context: The preservation of peace and the improvement of the lot of all people require us to have faith in the rationality of humans. If we have this faith and if we pursue understanding, we have not the promise but at least the possibility of success. We should not be misled by promises. Humanity in all its history has repeatedly escaped disaster by a hair's breadth. Total security has never been available to anyone. To expect it is unrealistic; to imagine that it can exist is to invite disaster. What we do have in our technological capacities is an opportunity to use our inventiveness, our creativity, our wisdom and our understanding of our fellow beings to create a future world that is a little better than the one in which we live today.
The Pursuit of Simplicity (1981), p. 151
Variant: Total security has never been available to anyone. To expect it is unrealistic; to imagine that it can exist is to invite disaster. I believe the most important aim for humanity at present is to avoid war, dictatorship, and their awful consequences.
Better a Shield Than A Sword : Perspectives On Defense And Technology (1987), p. 241
„I do not think that this peace based on force is, can be, or should be, an ultimate end.“
— Edward Teller
Context: If we stay strong, then I believe we can stabilize the world and have peace based on force. Now, peace based on force is not as good as peace based on agreement, but in the terrible world in which we live, in the world where the Russians have enslaved many millions of human beings, in the world where they have killed men, I think that for the time being the only peace we can have is the peace based on force. Furthermore, I do not think that this peace based on force is, can be, or should be, an ultimate end. Our ultimate end must be precisely what Dr. Pauling says, peace based on agreement, on understanding, on universally agreed and enforced law. I think this is a wonderful idea, but peace based on force buys the necessary time, and in this time we can work for better understanding, for closer collaboration, first with the countries which are closest to us, which we understand better, our allies, the western countries, the NATO countries, which believe in human liberties as we do. Then, as soon as possible, with the rest of the free world, and eventually, I hope, with the whole world, including Russia, even though it may take many years to come.
Debating Linus Pauling, in The Nuclear Bomb Tests...Is Fallout Overrated? : Fallout and Disarmament KQED-TV, San Francisco (20 February 1958) http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/peace/papers/1958p2.1.html
„The idea of God that I absorbed was that it would be wonderful if He existed: We needed Him desperately but had not seen Him in many thousands of years.“
— Edward Teller
Context: Religion was not an issue in my family; indeed, it was never discussed. My only religious training came because the Minta required that all students take classes in their respective religions. My family celebrated one holiday, the Day of Atonement, when we all fasted. Yet my father said prayers for his parents on Saturdays and on all the Jewish holidays. The idea of God that I absorbed was that it would be wonderful if He existed: We needed Him desperately but had not seen Him in many thousands of years.
Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics., (2002) by Edward Teller, Basic Books, p. 32.
„All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.“
— Edward Teller
Context: I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.
As quoted in The Martians of Science : Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (2006) by István Hargittai, p. 251
