Ernest Rutherford Quotes
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If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
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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.
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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.
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When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.
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All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
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Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.
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The more physics you have the less engineering you need.
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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.
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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.
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All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.
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Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
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Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.