"Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department."
— Ernest Rutherford

January 1, 1970

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As quoted by John Kendrew in "J.D. Bernal and the Origin of Life," BBC Radio Talk (26 July 1968), and in Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Third Edition by John Daintith, p. 662