All science is either physics or stamp collecting. — Ernest Rutherford · Skopia

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

1962

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Rutherford, Ernest. Quoted in Rutherford at Manchester, by J. B. Birks. Heywood and Company, 1962.

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