Ernest Rutherford

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

"The only possible universe capable of containing the chef is an improbable one."

"We ought to do away with the absolute force of mathematical demonstrations."

"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to do a better experiment."

"An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid."

"I have to admit that the palaver about men of science is pretty rich."

"Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting."

"The splitting of the atom is a very different matter from the splitting of an apple."

"It is quite obvious that the radio waves travel at the velocity of light."

"When you listen for the echo you are not hearing what is being said to you now."

"Science is not a collection of laws; it is a creation of the human mind."

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself."

"The atom is a miniature solar system."

"We cannot escape the conclusion that matter is made up of particles of electricity."

"I have never accepted what many people have kindly wished to believe."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"Science is the outcome of the desire to find an explanation of connected group of facts."

"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought."

"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration."

"The energy produced by the atom is a very poor substitute for the coal that could be mined."

"I wish I could be as confident about anything as I am about the existence of atoms."

"Some think I have been bold but I have simply tried to use my eyes."

"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living."

"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."

"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly not on the basis of my professional accomplishments alone."

"The neutron has opened up an extraordinarily rich field of investigation."

"Science demands absolute dedication to truth."

"Every man should be able to do his duty without having to think about it."

"The splitting of the nucleus releases tremendous energy."

"I wish to do research on the nature of matter itself."