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

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.

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

All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.

Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

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

Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character.