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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A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

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A theory that you can’t explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

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Theory

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

Engineering

Science

Understanding

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Humorous

Science

Witty

All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.

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Congratulations

Men

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

Barmaids

Discovery

Merit

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

Science

Stamp Collecting

Talking

Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.

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Lying

Men

From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with nitrogen are not nitrogen atoms but probably atoms of hydrogen, or atoms of mass 2. If this be the case, we must conclude that the nitrogen atom is disintegrated under the intense forces developed in a close collision with a swift alpha particle, and that the hydrogen atom which is liberated formed a constituent part of the nitrogen nucleus.

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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.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

A theory that you can’t explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

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.

All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.

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

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

Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.

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