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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
— Washington Gladden
Terror owned Adam. The old terror, the one that was just as much confusion and betrayal as fear itself.
— Maggie Stiefvater
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
— Ernest Rutherford
A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
— Ernest Rutherford
Now I know what the atom looks like.
— Ernest Rutherford
Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.
— Herbert M. Shelton
Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."
— Ernest Rutherford
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.
— Ernest Rutherford
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't.
— Ernest Rutherford
Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.
— Ernest Rutherford
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.
— Ernest Rutherford
Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It's time to start thinking.
— Ernest Rutherford
We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.
— Ernest Rutherford
We haven't got the money, so we'll have to think
— Ernest Rutherford
For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
— L. Neil Smith
To be successful, you have to distance yourself from your fears.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.
— Ernest Rutherford
If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.
— Steve Maraboli
The more physics you have the less engineering you need.
— Ernest Rutherford
The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
— Ernest Rutherford
Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
— Ernest Rutherford
That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
— Ernest Rutherford
Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.
— Ernest Rutherford
If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.
— Ernest Rutherford
I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.
— Ernest Rutherford
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.
— Ernest Rutherford
You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.
— Ernest Rutherford
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
— Ernest Rutherford
If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
— Ernest Rutherford
The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.
— Ernest Rutherford
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
— Ernest Rutherford
I don't know why, but it didn't seem an option for more than one of us to storm off, and I wanted to make sure that one was me.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
— Ernest Rutherford
A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.
— Ernest Rutherford