Ernest Rutherford Quote

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.


Letter to Irving Langmuir, 10 June 1919. Quoted in Nathan Reingold and Ida H. Reingold, Science in America: A Documentary History 1900–1939 (1981)


I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until...

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until...

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until...

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until...