Biographies Quote by Enrico Fermi

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

— Anonymous

“If I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.”

— Enrico Fermi

I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly…

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

— Frederick Sanger

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

— Walt Whitman

I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of…

— Florence Welch

I was a bit of a strange kid in some ways. I had microscopes, scalpels.

— Tony Hadley

I think I was a born scientist.

— Ken Wilber

“Up to about thirty years ago, it was thought that protons and neutrons were “elementary” particles, but experiments in which protons were collided with…

— Stephen Hawking

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

— Maria Sibylla Merian

In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around…

— Louis Agassiz

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

— Jeremy Rifkin