Enrico Fermi Quotes

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

Enrico Fermi

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• We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Doing

• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Policy
  • Foreign Policy

• Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Just
  • Desserts

• The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • World
  • Think
  • Worry

• With 'Aja,' there was a sort of happy conjunction between our tastes and the backgrounds and styles of studio musicians at the time.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Musicians

• I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mad

• As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Life
  • Character
  • History

• You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

  

  Harry Browne
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Miracles

• I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Real
  • Animal
  • Animals

• The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Short
  • Him
  • Upset

• I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Businesses
  • Board
  • Recession

• Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide.

  

  Zell Miller
  • America
  • Paris

• When I was inspecting the guard of honor and as I walked past one person, I saw through the corner of my eye some movement. Then I saw a man reverse his rifle at me. I ducked down a little bit in a reflex action. By my ducking, he missed my head and the brunt of the blow came on my shoulder below the left ear.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • Past
  • Action
  • Honor

• Vain, very vain, my weary search to findThat bliss which only centers in the mind.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Mind
  • Search

• The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

  

  Lincoln Steffens
  • People
  • Psychology

• When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Age
  • Baby
  • Sense

• I did The Sorting Hat, and it was the Gryffindor, and I was like, 'I'm not doing it again. It could be something bad.'

  

  Jared Goff
  • Bad

• I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Artist
  • Admire
  • Queens

• The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Audience
  • Seems
  • Loyal

• The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

  

  Enrico Fermi