Ernest Rutherford Quotes About Science
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Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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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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[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the α radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the β radiation.
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The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
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All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
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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.
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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Now I know what the atom looks like.
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Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.
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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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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)
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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.
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You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.
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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.
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We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
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You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.
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