Every Good Laboratory Consists Of First Rate

The Great Object Is To Find The Theory Of The Matter [of X-rays] Before Anyone Else, For Nearly Every Professor In Europe Is Now On The Warpath.

Splitting The Atom Is Like Trying To Shoot A Gnat In The Albert Hall At Night And Using Ten Million Rounds Of Ammunition On The Off Chance Of Getting It. That Should Convince You That The Atom Will Always Be A Sink Of Energy And Never A Reservoir Of Energy.

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.

Don't Let Me Catch Anyone Talking About The Universe In My Department.

A Theory That You Can't Explain To A Bartender Is Probably No Damn Good.