A Good Scientific Theory Should Be Explicable

We Are Rather Like Children, Who Must Take A Watch To Pieces To See How It Works.

When We Have Found How The Nucleus Of Atoms Is Built Up We Shall Have Found The Greatest Secret Of All — Except Life. We Shall Have Found The Basis Of Everything — Of The Earth We Walk On, Of The Air We Breathe, Of The Sunshine, Of Our Physical Body Itself, Of Everything In The World, However Great Or However Small — Except Life.

[from Uranium] There Are Present At Least Two Distinct Types Of Radiation One That Is Very Readily Absorbed, Which Will Be Termed For Convenience The α Radiation, And The Other Of A More Penetrative Character, Which Will Be Termed The β Radiation.

Gentlemen, Now You Will See That Now You See Nothing. And Why You See Nothing You Will See Presently.

A Good Scientific Theory Should Be Explicable To A Barmaid.