Quote: 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]
Quote: If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: 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]
Quote: The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: All science is either physics or stamp collecting. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: We haven't got the money, so we've got to think. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: The more physics you have the less engineering you need. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: 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]
Quote: That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: 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]
Quote: The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of physics has there been witnessed such a period of intense activity when discoveries of fundamental importance have followed one another with such bewildering rapidity. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: Now I know what the atom looks like. [Ernest Rutherford]
Quote: You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in. [Ernest Rutherford]