Teller Quotes

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

From the moment we are born, we begin to die.

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

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.

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

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.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

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.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding.

We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.

I don't trust a girl that doesn't eat. I find that a little sketchy.

I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.

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.

When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be.

U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know. Whether it will be done, I am not quite certain. But I would bet it can be done.

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.

I've always felt like I can dance.

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

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.

Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

At the end of the day, it's hard to keep relationships with people. I've got my family, my best friends and if a girl's gonna be a part of that then it's got to be good. If not, I'm out.

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."