Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand-born British physicist who came to be known as the father of nucle...
Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently. Ernest Rutherford
Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.
Don’t let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department. Ernest Rutherford
Don’t let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
Now I know what the atom looks like. Ernest Rutherford
Now I know what the atom looks like.
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 transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine. Ernest Rutherford
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 transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.
We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works. Ernest Rutherford
We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. Ernest Rutherford
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath. Ernest Rutherford
The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1. Ernest Rutherford
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.
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. Ernest Rutherford
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.
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.” Ernest Rutherford
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.”
You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven’t got labs to work in. Ernest Rutherford
You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven’t got labs to work in.
We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think. Ernest Rutherford
We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think.
