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On the printed page, it's best to have everything - you know, to still mind your P's and Q's, dot your I's and cross your T's, yes.

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Enrico Fermi

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

Discovery, Engineering, Experimental, Measurement, Science
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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.

Confused, Having, Levels, Listened, Statistics, Subject

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

Hearing, Joy, People, Underestimate

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.

Confirms, Discovery, Hypothesis, Outcomes, Science, Two

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

Forward, Ignorance, Positive, Science, Stop

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i. e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

Believe, Evil, Existence, Hydrogen Bomb, Think, Thinking
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