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...
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.
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.
The more the subject is examined the more complex must we suppose the constitution of matter in order to explain the remarkable effects observed. Ernest Rutherford
The more the subject is examined the more complex must we suppose the constitution of matter in order to explain the remarkable effects observed.
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.
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.
Now I know what the atom looks like. Ernest Rutherford
Now I know what the atom looks like.
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.”
In the light of the physicists have,I think,some justification for their faith that they are building on the solid rock of fact,and not,as we are often so solemnly warned by some of our scientific brethren,on the shifting sands of imaginative hypothesis. Ernest Rutherford
In the light of the physicists have,I think,some justification for their faith that they are building on the solid rock of fact,and not,as we are often so solemnly warned by some of our scientific brethren,on the shifting sands of imaginative hypothesis.
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war. Ernest Rutherford
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
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
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...
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.
