Leo Szilard Quotes
If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.
We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.
Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?
Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.
Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.
I am thinking of keeping a diary, not with the intend to publish it, merely to record the facts for the information of God, in case God does not know my version of the facts.
Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.
When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues must first of all ask, 'Why does he say it?
In science it is not enough to think of an important problem on which to work. It is also necessary to know the means which could be used to investigate the problem.
A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.
