[from Uranium] There Are Present At Least

From The Results So Far Obtained It Is Difficult To Avoid The Conclusion That The Long-range Atoms Arising From Collision Of Alpha Particles With Nitrogen Are Not Nitrogen Atoms But Probably Atoms Of Hydrogen, Or Atoms Of Mass 2. If This Be The Case, We Must Conclude That The Nitrogen Atom Is Disintegrated Under The Intense Forces Developed In A Close Collision With A Swift Alpha Particle, And That The Hydrogen Atom Which Is Liberated Formed A Constituent Part Of The Nitrogen Nucleus.

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

It Is Essential For Men Of Science To Take An Interest In The Administration Of Their Own Affairs Or Else The Professional Civil Servant Will Step In - And Then The Lord Help You.

I've Just Finished Reading Some Of My Early Papers, And You Know, When I'd Finished I Said To Myself, 'rutherford, My Boy, You Used To Be A Damned Clever Fellow.' (1911)

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.