Ignorance is never better than knowledge

Ignorance is never better than knowledge

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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 does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

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.

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.