Top 7 Burton Richter Quotes (2024 Update)

Burton Richter Quote: “Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.”

1. “Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.”

2. “While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.”

— Burton Richter

3. “I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.”

— Burton Richter

4. “Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake – it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.”

— Burton Richter

5. “Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.”

— Burton Richter

6. “In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.”

— Burton Richter

$Burton Richter Quote: “Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.”$

7. “Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.”

— Burton Richter