If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

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.

If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

Now I know what the atom looks like.