I Must Confess It Was Very Unexpected

I Must Confess It Was Very Unexpected And I Am Very Startled At My Metamorphosis Into A Chemist.

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

That Which Is Not Measurable Is Not Science. That Which Is Not Physics Is Stamp Collecting.

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.