Enrico Fermi citations

Enrico Fermi est un physicien italien naturalisé américain. Ses recherches serviront de socle à l'exploitation de l'énergie nucléaire.

Il est lauréat du prix Nobel de physique de 1938 « pour sa démonstration de l'existence de nouveaux éléments radioactifs produits par bombardements de neutrons, et pour sa découverte des réactions nucléaires créées par les neutrons lents ». Il fut également lauréat de la médaille Hughes en 1942, de la médaille Franklin en 1947 et du prix Rumford en 1953.

Il fut excellent, ce qui est rare, à la fois en physique expérimentale et en physique théorique.

✵ 29. septembre 1901 – 28. novembre 1954
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Enrico Fermi: Citations en anglais

“I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.”

When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common. As quoted in Physics Today (October 1994), p. 70.

“The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon 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.”

On the Hydrogen bomb in a minority addendum http://honors.umd.edu/HONR269J/archive/GACReport491030.html (co-authored with I. I. Rabi) to an official General Advisory Committee report for the Atomic Energy Commission (30 October 1949)
Contexte: Such a weapon goes far beyond any military objective and enters the range of very great natural catastrophes. By its very nature it cannot be confined to a military objective but becomes a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide. It is clear that the use of such a weapon cannot be justified on any ethical ground which gives a human being a certain individuality and dignity even if he happens to be a resident of an enemy country... The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon 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.

“Such a weapon goes far beyond any military objective and enters the range of very great natural catastrophes. By its very nature it cannot be confined to a military objective but becomes a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide.”

On the Hydrogen bomb in a minority addendum http://honors.umd.edu/HONR269J/archive/GACReport491030.html (co-authored with I. I. Rabi) to an official General Advisory Committee report for the Atomic Energy Commission (30 October 1949)
Contexte: Such a weapon goes far beyond any military objective and enters the range of very great natural catastrophes. By its very nature it cannot be confined to a military objective but becomes a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide. It is clear that the use of such a weapon cannot be justified on any ethical ground which gives a human being a certain individuality and dignity even if he happens to be a resident of an enemy country... The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon 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.

“If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.”

As quoted in Hyperspace (1995) by Michio Kaku

“I hope it won't take long.”

Comment to Eugene Wigner, ten days before his death from cancer, as quoted in The collected works of Eugene Paul Wigner (1992), p. 108

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