When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
Rutherford is a man you can rely on; he comes regularly and enquires how things are going and talks about the smallest details - Rutherford is such an outstanding man and really interested in the work of all the people around him.
Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.