Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
understanding contradiction deeper
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
science fool-proof defeat
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
freedom democracy weapons
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.
may global-warming significant
Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out.
simple perspective retrospect
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
future important battle
U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.
atheist community connections
In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.
believe science simple
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
simple facts theory
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.
science technology discovery
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical heat and energy.
technology today tomorrow
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
heart islands media
On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.
race extinction inability
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
believe evil despair
I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.