01UndatedIt was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hiErnest Rutherford / quote ↗
02UndatedIf your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.Ernest Rutherford / quote ↗
04UndatedIf, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than thErnest Rutherford / quote ↗
05UndatedI think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art. This is best seen in the theoretical aspects of Physical Science. The mathematical theorist builds up on certain assumptions and according to well understood logical rules, step by step, a stately edifice, while his imaginative power brings out clearly the hidden relations between its parts. A well constructed theory is in some respects undoubtedly an artistic production. A fine example is the famous Kinetic Theory of Maxwell. ... The theory of relativity by Einstein, quite apart from any question of its validity, cannot but be regarded as a magnificent work of art.Ernest Rutherford / quote ↗
06UndatedThe great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.Ernest Rutherford / quote ↗
07UndatedYou should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.Ernest Rutherford / quote ↗
08UndatedOf all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.Ernest Rutherford / quote ↗
