Ernest Rutherford Quotes

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Science rules!

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

I'm very interested in science.

Science is organized knowledge.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Science is not addressed to poets.

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.

I'm a firm believer in science.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.