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Enrico Fermi Quotes

1901–1954 Italy

Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".

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Also known as: Fermi, Fermi, Enrico

Random Enrico Fermi quote

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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.

Nuclear Principles in Engineering (2005)

I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

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

Hyperspace (1995)

He was simply unable to let things be foggy. Since they always are, this kept him pretty active.

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light.

Such a weapon goes far beyond any military objective and enters the range of very great natural catastrophes. By its very nature it cannot be confined to a military objective but becomes a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide.

Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.

I hope it won't take long.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Enrico Fermi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.