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

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

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.

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

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