Quote #14

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

More from Ernest Rutherford

  1. 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…
  2. The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't.
  3. That's the last potato I will ever dig.
  4. We don't have the money, so we have to think. (or 'We didn't have the money, so we had to think.')
  5. That man is an Euclidian point: position without substance.
  6. You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10 or 12 to 1.
  7. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a sheet of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.
  8. If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

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