"Now I know what the atom looks like."

--

Source : "Rutherford, Simple Genius". Book by David Wilson, 1983.

Ernest Rutherford

#Atoms Quotes #Looks Quotes #Experiments Quotes

“People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.”

Source : Keith Russell Ablow, MD (2007). “Psychopath: A Novel”, p.70, St. Martin's Press
“But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.”
“I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity”
“I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.”
“I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.”
“I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.”
“Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.”
“My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.”

You may also like:

Democritus
Philosopher
Erwin Schrodinger
Physicist
Henry Moseley
Physicist
John Dalton
Chemist
Joseph John Thomson
Physicist
Marie Curie
Physicist
Max Planck
Physicist
Niels Bohr
Physicist
Robert Andrews Millikan
Physicist