"There are two possible outcomes: if the result……" — Enrico Fermi
"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, then you've made a discovery."
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19 Quotes by Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi has 19 quotes on this site.
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One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this…
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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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More Confirms Quotes
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward,…
— Lord Byron
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My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of…
— Jimmy Carter
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles…
— Sun Tzu
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The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can…
— Fred Rogers
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I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.
— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
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This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of…
— Pope Pius XI
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Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their…
— Frank J. Tipler
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Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases…
— Horace
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Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that…
— Robert J. Samuelson
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