Famous Statements
- "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." – 1933
- "It was almost as if you fired a 15 inch shell into a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.” (describing the Geiger-Marsden experiment)
- "All science is either physics or stamp collecting" (though he was in 1908 awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
- "We haven't the money, so we've got to think."
- "If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."
- "You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1."
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or statements:
“A famous theatrical actress
Played best in the role of malefactress.
Yet her home-life was pure
Except, to be sure,
A scandal or two just for practice.”
—Anonymous.
“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)