Ernest Rutherford Quotes:
Ocupation: Physicist
Life: August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937
Birthday: August 30
Death: October 19
famous quotes
Topics: Science, Impossible, Physics, Triviality, Science Physics
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.
Topics: Real, Physics, Stamp Collecting
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
source: - Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)
Topics: Witty, Humorous, Science, Quantum Theory, Laws Of Physics
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
source: - Quoted in N.T. Bailey's The Mathematical Approach to Biology and Medicine Chapter 2 (p. 23)
Topics: Math, Science, Needs, Data Science, Statistician
Topics: Long, Hydrogen, Atoms, Hydrogen Atom, Nitrogen
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
source: - R. V. Jones in Bulletin of the Institute of Physics (1962) vol. 13, p. 102
Topics: Character, Matter, Chemicals, Stamp Collecting
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
source: - "Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics". Book by Mauro Dardo, p. 69, 2004.
Topics: Unexpected, Metamorphosis, Chemist
source: - "Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom" by E. N. da C. Andrade, (p. 111), 1964.
Topics: Pieces, Tissue Paper, Shells, Nobel Prize, Nuclear Physics
Now I know what the atom looks like.
source: - "Rutherford, Simple Genius". Book by David Wilson, 1983.
Topics: Atoms, Looks, Experiments
The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
Topics: Witty, Humorous, Insightful, Social Science
A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
source: - "The Language of God". Book by Francis Collins, p. 60, 2006.
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
source: - "Einstein: The Man and His Achievement". Book by Gerald James Whitrow, p. 42, 1973.
Topics: Discovery, Merit, Barmaids, Scientific Discovery
Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
Topics: Talking, Let Me, Universe, Department, Stamp Collecting
If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
Topics: Design, Needs, Should, Statistician, Funny Science
Topics: Science, Talking, Energy, Moonshine, Atomic Energy
That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
source: - "In Defence of ‘Stamp Collecting’" by Matthew Wale, conscicom.org. June 29, 2017. 
Topics: Physics, Stamp Collecting, Stamps
source: - "The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century: A Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Frank S. Pepper, p. 226, 1987.
Topics: Appreciation, Congratulations, Men, Tesla
Topics: Men, Essentials, Administration, Civil Servants
A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.
Topics: Barmaids, Should, Theory, Scientific Theory
