"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."

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Source : "Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom" by E. N. da C. Andrade, (p. 111), 1964.

Ernest Rutherford

#Pieces Quotes #Tissue Paper Quotes #Shells Quotes

“I just reared back and let them go.”
“... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.”
“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart.”
“People who know and read comics know that there's a huge diversity amongst the types of stories. Nobody ever goes 'how many more of these movies based on novels are there going to be?!'. People laugh at that question and they go novels, there are all different types of novels. But there are all different types of comic books, they just happen to have drawings on the cover!”

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“Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.”
“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
“There was an aura about him (Joe DiMaggio). He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was immaculate in everything he did. Kings of State wanted to meet him and be with him. He carried himself so well. He could fit in any place in the world.”
“Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.”

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