Enrico Fermi

Just to expand on the notion of scientists being wrong, I will paraphrase Enrico Fermi who once said that a scientist who has never been wrong is a scientist who has never accomplished anything.

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At Princeton, he projects photos of scientists - such as Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer - who were among the fathers of the atom bomb during World War II.

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At Princeton, he projects photos of scientists - such as Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer - who were among the fathers of the atom bomb during World War II.

Energy Secretary Chu in sprint to put stimulus to work on renewable innovations Steven Mufson 2010

[8] J.A. Wheeler, "Frontiers of Time," in Problems in the Foundations of Physics, Ed.N. Toraldo di Franca and Bas van Fraassen, N.rth Holland, A.sterdam, 1979 (International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi," Varenna, LXXII Course 1977).

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So when Enrico Fermi asked "where are they" it is not that astounding that there have been no proven encounters.

R.W. Sanders: An Idiot And Infinite Wisdom R.W. Sanders 2011

It was there that Loomis had built a "state-of-the-art laboratory" that was visited, at various times, by Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Enrico Fermi and Albert Einstein.

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Variations on these questions were famously posed by nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950: If the perceived probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations is so high, he asked, then why is there no evidence for, or contact with, any life-forms beyond Earth?

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

In addition to wanting to be like the sports heroes LeBron and Kobe and Michael and others, more of our young people need to want to be like Dr. Lloyd Quarterman, one of the leading nuclear scientists who, along with more than six other black scientists, worked with the Italian physicist, Enrico Fermi, on the Manhattan Project.

Rep. Bobby Rush: Rush Address at Minority Telecom Council's 2011 Broadband and Social Justice Summit Rep. Bobby Rush 2011

Variations on these questions were famously posed by nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950: If the perceived probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations is so high, he asked, then why is there no evidence for, or contact with, any life-forms beyond Earth?

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

So when Enrico Fermi asked "where are they" it is not that astounding that there have been no proven encounters.

R.W. Sanders: An Idiot And Infinite Wisdom R.W. Sanders 2011