Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes

Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.

Ernest Rutherford

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• Discovery
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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
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• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Stories
  • Nothing
  • Selection

• The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • World
  • Great
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• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
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• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
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• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Life
  • Feelings
  • My Life

• I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Great
  • Why
  • Always

• We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • School

• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • House
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• To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Creative

• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Career

• Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Taken

• Despite being subjected to killing, arrest, and oppression, Morsy's supporters have held fast to the democratic process and prevented Egypt from descending into civil war.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • War

• Shrine of the mighty! can it beThat this is all remains of thee?

  

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• When we are all together, we will have a future that is far greater than whatever we could do separate from one another.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Together
  • Future

• I'm pretty deep into '80s nostalgia, specifically children's entertainment, so a lot of California Raisins, Garfield, Alf - that's kind of a lot of the clothes I have and cherish the most.

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Children
  • Pretty
  • Deep

• Money equals freedom.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Money
  • Freedom

• I encourage you to look at the world around you and think about how it works. My friends, you can go forth and make this world a better place.

  

  Bill Nye
  • World
  • Friends

• Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • May
  • Art
  • Today

• Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Progress
  • Harmony
  • Discovery