Best Quotes by Ernest Rutherford (Top 10)
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford
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If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
Ernest Rutherford
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We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
Ernest Rutherford
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The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
Ernest Rutherford
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Now I know what the atom looks like.
Ernest Rutherford
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The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.
Ernest Rutherford
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Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.
Ernest Rutherford
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I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)
Ernest Rutherford
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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...
Ernest Rutherford
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You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.
Ernest Rutherford
More Ernest Rutherford Quotes
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Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine
Ernest Rutherford