"We're like children who always want to take apart watches to see how they work."
— Ernest Rutherford

January 1, 1970

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As quoted by Freeman Dyson, "Seeing the Unseen," New York Review of Books (Feb. 24, 2005), quoting Rutherford in the London Daily Herald