Ernest rutherford sayings

Here are some famous quotes attributed to Ernest Rutherford:

1. "All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

2. "An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid."

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

4. "The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't."

5. "We haven't the money, so we've got to think."

6. "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."

7. "I have always been very fond of mathematical physics, and one of the first things that suggested itself to me was to examine the radiation theory."

8. "The work of the radiations in the disintegration of the elements was one of the earliest applications of the new fundamental ideas of quantum mechanics to the study of the atom."

9. "The atom is the only thing in the universe that can be divided without being destroyed."

10. "We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind, and tide."

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