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Leo Szilard (/ˈsɪlɑːrd/; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó [ˈsila:rd ˈlɛo:]; German: Leo Spitz until age 2; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-German-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi in 1934, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.

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Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

Important, Scientist, Scientists, Three, True

In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

Choose, Fun, Ideas, Jobs, Life, Publishing

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

Able, Arrive, Decision, Doe, Enough, Know

Do not destroy what you cannot create.

Create, Destroy

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

Done, Effect, Experts, Irritated

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Assuming, Ignorance, Infinite, May, Unlimited

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.

Important, Job, Jobs, Problem, Thinking, Work

Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps. But, In spite of their numerical inferiority, they play a major role in our society because theirs is the voice of the conscience of society.

Give, Minority, People, Play, Science, Voice

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.

Diaries, Doe, God, Keeping, Record, Thinking

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, Equal, Further, Genius, Morons, Two

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Don'T Lie, Ifs, Lie, Lying

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.

Important, Investigate, Mean, Necessary, Thinking, Work

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, Judgment, Men, Older, Suffering

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.

One Day, People, Succeed, World

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.

Bring, Knowledge, Science, Scientist, Tragedy

Speak to all men as you do to yourself, with no concern for the effect you make, so that you do not shut them out from your world; lest in isolation the meaning of life slips out of sight and you lose the belief in the perfection of creation.

Isolation, Make, Men, Perfection, Sight

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, Exercising, Obligation, Subtle, Thinking

I'm looking for a market for wisdom.

Looking, Market, Wisdom