Ernest Rutherford Quote

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


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

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

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

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