Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

Ernest Rutherford

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• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Book
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• The strength of America is not in Washington.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
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• Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Life
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• I then walk off into the swamp along the path of logs and tree-trunks, picking my way cautiously, now glancing right and left on the foliage, and then surveying carefully the surface of the smooth round log I am walking on.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Path
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  • Tree

• Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Forever
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• Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.

  

  D. W Brogan
  • World
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• Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • People
  • Money
  • High

• Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Women
  • Inequality
  • Stereotype

• Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Speech
  • Prejudice
  • Bourgeois

• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Sadness
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• As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Mother
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• I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Discovery

• What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Imagination
  • Stories
  • Architecture

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Use
  • Helpful

• An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Discovery
  • Merit
  • Barmaids