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

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.

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.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

We could adopt. there are lots of kids out there who could grow up to hate us as much as any kid we could make

Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

People are afraid, people don't want to be rejected.

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.

Without style, there can be no identity.

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.