Ernest Rutherford Quotes

It is certain because it is impossible.

The tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart

I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm." "That doesn't make any sense," said Roger. Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it.

It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

Ok you guys, pair up in threes!

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

The square root of nothing.

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

It is not only not right, it is not even wrong.

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.