Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes

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 α radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the β radiation.

Ernest Rutherford

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• Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

  

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• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

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• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

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• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

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• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

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• When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

  

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• When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

  

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• Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

  

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• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

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• In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

  

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• Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

  

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• Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

  

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• I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

  

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• There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

  

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• I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

  

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• We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

  

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• Christopher Guest, he'll call and say, 'We're doing this movie, and I'd like you to play _' and he gives you the character, then I always like to enlarge on the character.

  

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• I'm a bit of a control freak.

  

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• There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

  

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• 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 α radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the β radiation.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
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