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

  

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

  

  Kate Adie
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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Aaron Carter
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• 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
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• 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
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• To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

  

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• 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
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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

  

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• I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.

  

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• I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

  

  Bill Watterson
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• The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

  

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• 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