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. (Ernest Rutherford)

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.

Ernest Rutherford

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