Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

—Enrico Fermi

About Enrico Fermi

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Enrico Fermi (Italian: [enˈriːko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized-American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his demonstrations...

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

—Enrico Fermi

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge.

—Edgar Allan Poe

If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

—Bertrand Russell

All men by nature desire knowledge.

—Benjamin Disraeli

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

—Madam Guizot

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