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All of physics is either impo...

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

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

The greatest contributor to t...

The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent to abolish air bombardment . . . that would mean the greatest possible release from fear.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

Gentlemen, we have run out of...

Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

The year 1896 ... marked the ...

The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of physics has there been witnessed such a period of intense activity when discoveries of fundamental importance have followed one another with such bewildering rapidity.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

All scientific men will be de...

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

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

From the results so far obtai...

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.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

Splitting the atom is like tr...

Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

I am a great believer in the s...

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

I've just finished reading som...

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

I congratulate you both on a f...

I congratulate you both on a fine piece of work which I am sure will ultimately prove of importance. I am personally very much interested in your results... In the past I have tried a number of experiments... but without any success.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

[From uranium] there are prese...

[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 О± radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the ОІ radiation.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

All scientific men will be del...

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

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

When we have found how the nuc...

When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all Ђ' except life. We shall have found the basis of everything Ђ' of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small Ђ' except life.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

Gentlemen, we have run out of ...

Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

Every good laboratory consists...

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.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

Splitting the atom is like try...

Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

You should never bet against a...

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

Should a young scientist worki...

Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

That which is not measurable i...

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

The energy produced by the bre...

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.

Ernest Rutherford 45 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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