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Enrico Fermi
September 29, 1901 - November 28, 1954
Nationality: American
Category: Physicist
Subcategory: American Physicist

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

   

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

   

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 you've made a discovery.

   

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

   

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

   

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.

   

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

   

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