Limits Exist Quotes by Enrico Fermi

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Enrico Fermi has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem.…
• Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
• I hope it won't take long.
• When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.
• When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence
• Ignorance is never better than knowledge
• I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I…
• Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.
• Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
• Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older…
• An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.
• Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

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