31 Quotes by Martin Fleischmann

So I think that as science is organized in Japan at the moment it will not make a great deal of headway in innovative science. That's my own opinion.

So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research.

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

British science has a certain style and, of course, my problem is that, although I was born in Czechoslovakia, I am the archetypal British scientist.

At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.

If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone.' But this is not in that category. This is interesting science. New science. With a hint of a possibility of a very useful technology. Therefore, if you've got any integrity, you don't give up. You only give up if you find you are wrong. But as long as you believe that you are right, you have to continue. And you have to take the consequences.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.