Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."

- Ernest Rutherford

When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis o…

- Ernest Rutherford

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

- Ernest Rutherford

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

- Ernest Rutherford

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

- Ernest Rutherford

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

- Ernest Rutherford

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

- Ernest Rutherford

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

- Ernest Rutherford

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

- Ernest Rutherford