An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

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.

Enrico Fermi

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Enrico Fermi

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Enrico Fermi

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

Enrico Fermi

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

Enrico Fermi

I hope it won't take long.

Enrico Fermi

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

Enrico Fermi

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

Enrico Fermi