Ernest Rutherford

The pursuit of beauty is a lifelong journey.

Truth is a powerful force.

Life is a precious gift.

The human mind is capable of great things.

The purpose of life is to live it to the fullest.

Death is a natural part of life.

I am going to call it the nucleus.

We've got to get rid of this idea that the atom is a hard, indivisible sphere.

If you are a good experimentalist, you don't need to be a good theoretician.

In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

I have been working on the atom for 25 years, and I have never seen a particle.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

The only way to do good science is to be a bit of a maverick.

I am a simple man, and I like simple things.

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

The electron is not a particle, it is a wave.

I have just made a discovery that will change the world.

We must be prepared to abandon any hypothesis, however cherished, if it does not fit the facts.

The only way to learn science is to do science.

I am a great believer in the power of the simple experiment.