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Top 30 Ernest Rutherford Quotes (2025 Update)

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”

1. “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.”

2. “Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.”

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

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.”

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

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “The more physics you have the less engineering you need.”

5. “The more physics you have the less engineering you need.”

— Ernest Rutherford

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

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

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “We haven’t got the money, so we’ve got to think.”

7. “We haven’t got the money, so we’ve got to think.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “A theory that you can’t explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.”

8. “A theory that you can’t explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “If you don’t do the best with what you have, You could never have done better with what you could have had !”

9. “If you don’t do the best with what you have, You could never have done better with what you could have had !”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don’t.”

10. “The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don’t.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “Never say, “I tried it once and it did not work.””

11. “Never say, “I tried it once and it did not work.””

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “Now I know what the atom looks like.”

12. “Now I know what the atom looks like.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.”

13. “That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.”

16. “We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.”

17. “I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.”

18. “Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.”

21. “A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.”

22. “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

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies...”

24. “I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies...”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “Don’t let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.”

25. “Don’t let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.”

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

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.”

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

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the ‘social sciences’ is: some do, some don’t.”

28. “The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the ‘social sciences’ is: some do, some don’t.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven’t got labs to work in.”

29. “You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven’t got labs to work in.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in – and then the Lord help you.”

30. “It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in – and then the Lord help you.”

— Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford Quote: “Anyone who is looking for a source of cheap power in the transformation of the atom, is talking pure moonshine.”

31. “Anyone who is looking for a source of cheap power in the transformation of the atom, is talking pure moonshine.”

— Ernest Rutherford

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