57 Quotes by Ernest Rutherford

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

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

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.

The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't

Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine

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

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.

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