"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."

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Source : Enrico Fermi (1971). “Collected Papers: Italy 1921-1938”

Enrico Fermi

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“There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.”
“Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.”
“I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!”
“I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.”
“Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa”
“Residues arise... naturally in several branches of analysis... Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results...”

Source : "Oeuvres completes". Book by Augustin-Louis Cauchy (Serie 2, Tome 6, "Sur un nouveau genre de calcul analogue au Calcul infinitésimal", pp. 23-37, translated), 1826.
“The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.”
“You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.”

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