[b]Enrico Fermi
Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old “existential meltdown” followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.[/b]
Let’s not go to what I’m feeling.
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Yeah, I used to believe that once myself.
…on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.
Politics? You know, like everything else.
Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.
Just out of curiosity, how many particles are there now?
When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.
I’d go lower myself.
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.
Good to know, right?