Ernest Rutherford

“Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.”

“You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.”

“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”

“If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.”

“Now I know what the atom looks like.”

“It 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 hi”

“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”

“If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than th”