[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

— Chaim Weizmann

“ His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever…

— Joseph John Thomson

“The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had…

— Richard Rhodes

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and…

— Christopher Hitchens

No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of…

— C.P. Snow

“He was a big, rather clumsy man, with a substantial bay window that started in the middle of the chest. I should guess that…

— C.P. Snow

“As for the contract, I’m either trustworthy or I’m not. If I’m not, I’ll find a way to screw you no matter what the…

— Scott Meyer

Rutherford is a man you can rely on; he comes regularly and enquires how things are going and talks about the smallest details -…

— Niels Bohr

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about…

— Sophie Thompson

“Rutherford assented. “Yes, I liked him a good deal too, though I also saw surprisingly little of him, if you measure it in time.”…

— James Hilton

“Women revert to their maiden names in Heaven, Rutherford feels fairly certain. He can't remember where he learned this--France or the Bible.”

— Karen Russell

“The year that Rutherford died (1938) there disappeared forever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth.…

— Pyotr Kapitsa

When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story…

— Gary Bettman

As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was…

— Chaim Weizmann

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

— Albert Einstein