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“No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller.”

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Edward Teller was a renowned physicist known for his contributions to nuclear physics. He played a crucial role in the Manhattan Project and is known as the 'father of the hydrogen bomb' for his work on the development of the hydrogen bomb. more

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

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“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.”

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“Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of "second meaning" of the terms applied.”

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