If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the α radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the β radiation.

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.

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

Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

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.