Original sentence: In 1933 Szilárd fled to London to escape Nazi persecution, where he read an article written by Ernest Rutherford in The Times which rejected the possibility of using atomic energy for practical purposes
Edited sentence: But the subject was scientifically interesting because it gave insight into the atoms.In 1933 Szilárd fled to London to escape Nazi persecution, where he read an article written by Ernest Rutherford in The Times which rejected the possibility of using atomic energy for practical purposes:.It was a very poor and inefficient way of producing energy, and anyone who looked for a source of power in the transformation of the atoms was talking moonshine.We might in these processes obtain very much more energy than the proton supplied, but on the average we could not expect to obtain energy in this way