Ignorance is never better than knowledge

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.

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering

At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

All of my novels are democracies.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.