Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRSwas a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. Encyclopædia Britannica considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 August 1871
CityBrightwater, New Zealand
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You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.
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If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
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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.
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You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.
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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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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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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've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)
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We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
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If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
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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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The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't
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Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
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Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine