All Science Is Either Physics Or Stamp

We Are Rather Like Children, Who Must Take A Watch To Pieces To See How It Works.

Don't Let Me Catch Anyone Talking About The Universe In My Department.

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.

A Theory That You Can't Explain To A Bartender Is Probably No Damn Good.

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.