When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%. - Enrico Fermi

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I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice. ' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.

Enrico Fermi

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

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

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Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

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Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.

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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.

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It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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Herbert Spencer

The law is the survival of the fittest. . . . The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

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Warren G. Harding

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

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Vladimir Putin

I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.

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Andrew Johnson

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.

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Upton Sinclair