Ernest Rutherford cytaty

Ernest Rutherford, 1. Baron Rutherford of Nelson – brytyjski fizyk urodzony w Nowej Zelandii, który jako pierwszy potwierdził istnienie jądra atomowego. W roku 1908 otrzymał Nagrodę Nobla w dziedzinie chemii. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Sierpień 1871 – 19. Październik 1937
Ernest Rutherford Fotografia
Ernest Rutherford: 22   Cytaty 7   Polubień

Ernest Rutherford słynne cytaty

„Teraz panowie widzą, że nic nie widać. A dlaczego nie widać, to zaraz panowie zobaczą.”

demonstrując rozpad radu, gdy ekran raz świecił, a raz ciemniał
Źródło: Przemysław Słowiński, Sławni…, op. cit.

„Jesteśmy biedni. Musimy myśleć.”

Źródło: Przemysław Słowiński, Sławni ludzie w anegdocie

„To było prawie tak niewiarygodne, jak gdybyś wystrzeliła 15-calowy pocisk artyleryjski w kierunku papierowej serwetki, a on odbiłby się od niej, trafiając w ciebie.”

o swoim eksperymencie, w którym, po zbombardowaniu złotej folii cząstkami alfa, Rutherford zauważył, że część dodatnio naładowanych cząstek odbiła się od warstwy złota.
Źródło: Katarzyna Nessing, Adam Blokesz, Świat fizyki – zbiór zadań dla szkół ponadgimnazjalnych; zakres podstawowy, Zamkor, Kraków 2012, ISBN 9788376620046, s. 55

Ernest Rutherford: Cytaty po angielsku

“Scientists are not dependent on the ideas of a single man, but on the combined wisdom of thousands”

As quoted in The Birth of a New Physics (1959) by I. Bernard Cohen
Kontekst: It is not in the nature of things for any one man to make a sudden violent discovery; science goes step by step, and every man depends on the work of his predecessors. When you hear of a sudden unexpected discovery—a bolt from the blue, as it were—you can always be sure that it has grown up by the influence of one man on another, and it is this mutual influence which makes the enormous possibility of scientific advance. Scientists are not dependent on the ideas of a single man, but on the combined wisdom of thousands of men, all thinking of the same problem, and each doing his little bit to add to the great structure of knowledge which is gradually being erected.

“When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life.”

As quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century : A Dictionary of Quotations‎ (1987) by Frank S. Pepper, p. 226
Kontekst: 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 of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.

“It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.”

Discussing the result of an experiment where about 1 out of 8000 alpha particles were scattered backwards when fired at a thin sheet of metal foil, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus, as quoted in Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom (1964) by E. N. da C. Andrade, p. 111, and in Nobel Laureates in chemistry, 1901-1992 http://books.google.com/books?id=jEy67gEvIuMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false by Laylin K. James, p. 57
Kontekst: It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

“I was brought up to look at the atom as a nice hard fellow, red or grey in colour, according to taste.”

A. S. Eve, Rutherford (2013)
Kontekst: The first point that arises is the atom. I was brought up to look at the atom as a nice hard fellow, red or grey in colour, according to taste. In order to explain the facts, however, the atom cannot be regarded as a sphere of material, but rather as a sort of wave motion of a peculiar kind. The theory of wave-mechanics, however bizarre it may appear... has the astonishing virtue that it works, and works in detail, so that it is now possible to understand and explain things which looked almost impossible in earlier days. One of the problems encountered is the relation between the electron, an atom and the radiation produced by them jointly; the new mechanics states the type of radiation emitted with correct numerical relations. When applied to the periodic table, a competent and laborious mathematician can predict the periodic law from first principles.

“We're like children who always want to take apart watches to see how they work.”

As quoted by Freeman Dyson, "Seeing the Unseen," New York Review of Books (Feb. 24, 2005), quoting Rutherford in the London Daily Herald

“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”

As quoted in Rutherford at Manchester (1962) by J. B. Birks
Unsourced variants:
That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.
That which is not measurable is not science. — (which is also attributed to Lord Kelvin)

“I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.”

On his 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry, as quoted in Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics http://books.google.com/books?id=UQ3_ZwdrUUwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA69#v=onepage&q&f=false (2004) by Mauro Dardo, p. 69

“Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.”

As quoted by John Kendrew in "J.D. Bernal and the Origin of Life," BBC Radio Talk (26 July 1968), and in Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Third Edition http://books.google.com/books?id=vqTNfnKJVPAC&lpg=PA663&dq=rutherford%20%22shell%20at%20a%20piece%20of%20tissue%22&pg=PA662#v=onepage&q=rutherford%20%22shell%20at%20a%20piece%20of%20tissue%22&f=false by John Daintith, p. 662

“An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.”

As quoted in Einstein: The Man and His Achievement (1973) by G. J. Whitrow, p. 42
Variants:
If you can't explain your physics to a barmaid it is probably not very good physics.
As quoted in Journal of Advertising Research (March-April 1998)
A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
As quoted in The Language of God (2006) by Francis Collins, p. 60

“We've got no money, so we've got to think.”

As quoted in Quips, Quotes, and Quanta : An Anecdotal History of Physics (2007) by Anton Z. Capri, page 65.
Quoted by Edward Andrade in Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom http://books.google.com/books?id=VVoeXNceuVwC (1964)
Unsourced variant: We didn't have the money, so we had to think.

“I know what the atom looks like!”

David Wilson, Rutherford, Simple Genius (1983)

“I have broken the machine and touched the ghost of matter.”

As quoted by Richard Reeves, A Force of Nature The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (2008) citing Ernest Rutherford Atom Man http://www.nzedge.com/ernest-rutherford/

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