Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRSwas a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. Encyclopædia Britannica considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 August 1871
CityBrightwater, New Zealand
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Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine
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Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.
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I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies...
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We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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Now I know what the atom looks like.
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When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.
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I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.
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The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
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A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
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I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
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The more physics you have the less engineering you need.