Science Quotes by Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

[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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Ernest Rutherford

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

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Ernest Rutherford

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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Ernest Rutherford

Don’t let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

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Ernest Rutherford

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

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Ernest Rutherford

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

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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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Ernest Rutherford

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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Ernest Rutherford

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

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Ernest Rutherford

Now I know what the atom looks like.

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Science Quotes by Ernest Rutherford

[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.

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Don’t let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

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.

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)

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Now I know what the atom looks like.

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