Which great scientist said this and what is the missing word?
" All science is [ ]. The rest is just stamp-collecting ".
He was active in the C20. He was neither an American nor a Briton.

Ernest Rutherford

"All science is PHYSICS, The rest is just stamp-collecting ".

Correct, Jenny. It was indeed Sir Ernest Rutherford, a Kiwi, who thought his discipline unique.

What makes this quote rather amusing is that Rutherford received the Nobel Prize in chemistry, but never in physics

He was ahead of his time, methos.

Thirty years ago a friend who had a first class degree in chemistry lamented that she was one of a dying breed; she thought that almost all really able candidates for sciences were then opting for physics; as she remarked lightly 'chemistry now is really only physics '.

In the UK you would read only physics or chemistry at university, not both; you'd get that out of your system at 18 after three 'A' level exams, the highest exams taken at school and on which your application for university is founded.Those are in one subject each so you would do chemistry, physics and, say maths or biology if aiming for science.

Well, if you visited my lab you'd actually have to search to find the chemicals . It really does seem more like a physics lab sometimes.

The lines between the sciences are more blurry than Rutherford would likely have admitted, even then, but certainly now. One nice thing about being a chemist, especially an analytical one, is how easy it is to shift between other sciences. There's work being done in my lab in biology, geology, physics, engineering,and (of course) chemistry.