There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering Rutherford's atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrog…

He was simply unable to let things be foggy. Since they always are, this kept him pretty active.

Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a …

Etsi difficiile esse videtur credere quicquam in rebus solido reperiri corpore posse. transit enim fulmen caeli per saepta domorum, clamor ut ad voces; flamen …

In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accep…