"One might be led to question whether the……" — Enrico Fermi
"One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun."
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Enrico Fermi
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19 Quotes by Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi has 19 quotes on this site.
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Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better…
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I hope it won't take long.
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When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.
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When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not…
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Ignorance is never better than knowledge
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I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with…
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Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.
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Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
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Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts…
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An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.
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Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.
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Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of…
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first…
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
— Willa Cather
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
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