Quotes by Enrico Fermi

• 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.
• Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
• If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
• Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
• It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
• 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.
• 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.