"Ignorance is never better than knowledge"

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Source : Quoted in Laura Fermi Atoms in the Family (1954).

Enrico Fermi

#Ignorance Quotes

“The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.”
“Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.”
“The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.”
“All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.”
“A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.”
“Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.”
“Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," . "I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men.”
“If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.”

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