"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."

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Source : Enrico Fermi, James W. Cronin (2004). “Fermi Remembered”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

Enrico Fermi

#Numbers Quotes #Ties Quotes #Machines Quotes

“What do we believe? Why do we believe it?”
“When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.”
“Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape”
“Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.”

Source : Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.104, Random House
“There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.”

Source : "Rob Woodall Won’t Give Up Government Health Care ‘Because It’s Free’" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.
“Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.”
“The war against terrorism is one we must win.”
“Disorder. But completeness...”

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