British Quote by Joseph John Thomson

“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

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

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

— Albert Einstein

“ His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than…

— Anonymous

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…

— Ernest Rutherford

“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

“We live in the era of the scientific savage,” he reflected, “where all the wisdom of science, mathematics and physics are used for the…

— Daniel Immerwahr

“One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists…

— Basil Mahon

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must nevertheless remain…

— Louis de Broglie

“It was the end of Ernest's struggle with apprenticeship, and an end to other things as well. He would never again be unknown. We…

— Paula McLain

“When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job. Now he…

— China Miéville

“Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one’s way in the dark.”

— Roberto Bolaño