Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.
We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.
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.
You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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.