31 Quotes by Enrico Fermi

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.’

Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could do the same. So why haven’t they come to Earth?

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.