Quote #17

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10 or 12 to 1.

More from Ernest Rutherford

  1. We don't have the money, so we have to think. (or 'We didn't have the money, so we had to think.')
  2. The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't.
  3. The more physics you have the less engineering you need.
  4. 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…
  5. That's the last potato I will ever dig.
  6. That man is an Euclidian point: position without substance.
  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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