We’re like children who always want to take apart watches to see how they work.
—Ernest Rutherford
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
—Ernest Rutherford
If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.
—Ernest Rutherford
If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
—Ernest Rutherford
Topics: Experiment
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
—Ernest Rutherford
Topics: Experiment
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
Topics: Energy
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