More from Ernest Rutherford

  1. That man is an Euclidian point: position without substance.
  2. The energy produced by breaking down the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformations o…
  3. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a sheet of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.
  4. The more physics you have the less engineering you need.
  5. If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
  6. The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't.
  7. I'm a simple man myself.
  8. We don't have the money, so we have to think. (or 'We didn't have the money, so we had to think.')

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