Discovery Quote by Enrico Fermi Download Open image “An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.” — Enrico Fermi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discovery Experiments Inspirational Predictions Research
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis,… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“With each step in the process, we used the method of science: Observe. Hypothesize. Predict. Experiment. Compare what you expected with what really happened.” — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis,… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
“The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element,… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
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