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Science Quotes by Ernest Rutherford
- The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of…
- The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
- Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.
- 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…
- That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
- All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.
- [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…
- 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…
- Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.
- If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
- All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
- We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
- All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
- You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.
- 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…
- You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.
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