Quotes by Leo Szilard

Leo Szilard

A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.

Desire

Exercise

Thinking

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.

Clarity

Men

Suffering

A scientist’s aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Aim

Colleagues

Scientist

Byrnes… was concerned about Russia’s postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania, and Byrnes thought it would be very difficult to persuade Russia to withdraw her troops from these countries, that Russia might be more manageable if impressed by American military might, and that a demonstration of the bomb might impress Russia.

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Military

Russia

Do not destroy what you cannot create.

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.

Friends

Memories

Years

Don’t lie if you don’t have to.

Don't Lie

Ifs

Lying

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?

Democracy

Genius

Two

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.

Doe

Facts

Thinking

I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.

Knowledge

Science

Tragedy

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Quotes by Leo Szilard

Leo Szilard

A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.

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.

A scientist’s aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Do not destroy what you cannot create.

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.

Don’t lie if you don’t have to.

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?

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.

I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.

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