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Enrico Fermi Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: italian
Birth: September 29, 1901 - November 28, 1954

Topics

Result You Discovery Possible Two

A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.

John Gordon Sinclair

Me T-Shirt Critic Got Once Printed

I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things.

Andre Rieu

Home Beautiful I Am World Year

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

You Know Will Never Happen Hit

I entered KC College in 1975. When I came here for my interview, for my admission, every person I spoke to spoke to me in Sindhi. Be it Kundanani, Bhambani, Nichani, Kevalramani... and they also thought that Ambani was the same. For a moment, I thought that I got my admission at KC College because I have a 'ni' in my surname.

Anil Ambani

Moment College Me Thought Person

I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.

Amiri Baraka

College Crazy Black Thought Doing

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Roger Penrose

Direction Ordinary Motion Spin

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

Robyn Hitchcock

Because Musician Wanted Other Really

I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.

Ruth Rendell

Believe You Go Know Important Kind

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

Roman Jakobson

Value Search Giving Rise Risk Whole

There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.

Marvin Davis

Travel Enough Los Angeles Need Big

Driving a race car isn't too far a cry from driving any other sports car, but driving one through Africa in the middle of the night offers a wide scree of new sensations.

Jonathan Miles

Car Sports Night Driving New Cry

I used to watch a programme about Route 66 in America, and it looked so fun.

Jorja Smith

Fun America Watch Used Route About