Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Ernest Rutherford

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• If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
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  • Math
  • Experiments