Enrico Fermi Quotes

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

KnowledgeIgnoranceBetterNever

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

Robert Rodriguez

WomenStrongMoviesStrong WomenUp

Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May.

Michael Dirda

TimeReadingStoryDeepYearApril

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

John Portman

ArchitecturePastPeopleBuilding

Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

TimeBetterDuckLearnTryingLost

I'm becoming more and more of a backwoodsman. I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more, I'm starting to enjoy being in nature. Just to sit and slow down a little bit.

Michiel Huisman

NatureCitySlowEnjoyDownMore

My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.

David Wooster

LifeServiceYouthMy LifeDownUp

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Boris Pasternak

MeDoctorStomachTakeForbidden

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Bryant H. McGill

IntelligenceUnderstandingFindNever

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

Pierre Corneille

GreatMenKingsMayLikeErr

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

Phil Klay

WarPeopleLookingPoliticalWay

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

Seth Lloyd

LawDownWillPointBreakSome

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

Lindsay Lohan

I AmPeopleFeelSituationPerson

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