Ernest Rutherford Quotes About Physics

Quotes about: Physics

• All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Science, Engineering, Understanding

• All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Witty, Humorous, Science

  Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)

• The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Engineering, Needs, Physics

• That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Physics, Stamp Collecting, Stamps

  "In Defence of ‘Stamp Collecting’" by Matthew Wale, conscicom.org. June 29, 2017.

• The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of physics has there been witnessed such a period of intense activity when discoveries of fundamental importance have followed one another with such bewildering rapidity.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Hero, Science, Years

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