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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• Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.

  

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• It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

  

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• Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

  

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• Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

  

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• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

  

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• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

  

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• Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

  

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• I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

  

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• We have something called naked Sundays ... You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up ... We don't need to go anywhere, we're just with each other. We do everything naked. We cook naked.

  

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• I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

  

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• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  

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• Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

  

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• If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.

  

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• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  

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• You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.

  

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• Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

  

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• How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

  

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• War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

  

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

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Needs
  • Math
  • Experiments