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The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of physics has there been witnessed such a period of intense activity when discoveries of fundamental importance have followed one another with such bewildering rapidity.
Ernest Rutherford -
The great object is to find the theory of the matter of X-rays before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.
Ernest Rutherford
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Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.
Ernest Rutherford -
Now I know what the atom looks like.
Ernest Rutherford -
Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.
Ernest Rutherford -
All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.
Ernest Rutherford -
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford -
You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.
Ernest Rutherford
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The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.
Ernest Rutherford -
I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.
Ernest Rutherford -
Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."
Ernest Rutherford -
Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
Ernest Rutherford -
We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.
Ernest Rutherford -
Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.
Ernest Rutherford