Ernest Rutherford - Famous Statements

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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