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We've got no money, so we've got to think.

— Ernest Rutherford Attributed

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Quoted by Edward Andrade (collaborated with Rutherford in 1914) in Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom (1964)

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It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

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I do not know if you appreciate the fact that long papers have a way of frightening readers, who feel that they have not time to dip into them.

It is just as surprising as if a gunner fired a shell at a single sheet of paper and for some reason or other the projectile bounded back again.

The study of the radio-active substances and of the discharge of electricity through gases has supplied very strong experimental evidence in support of the fundamental ideas of the existing atomic theory. It has also indicated that the atom itself is not the smallest unit of matter but is a complicated structure made up of a number of smaller bodies.

Radio-activity (1904)

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