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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.
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Science is divided into two categories, physics and stamp-collecting.
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Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.
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Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.
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Born:
August 30, 1871
Died:
October 19, 1937
(aged 66)
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Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson was a New Zealand-born British physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. Encyclopædia Britannica considers him to be the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday.
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