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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.

A Good Scientific Theory Should Be Explicable To A Barmaid.

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.

The Great Object Is To Find The Theory Of The Matter [of X-rays] Before Anyone Else, For Nearly Every Professor In Europe Is Now On The Warpath.

When We Have Found How The Nucleus Of Atoms Is Built Up We Shall Have Found The Greatest Secret Of All — Except Life. We Shall Have Found The Basis Of Everything — Of The Earth We Walk On, Of The Air We Breathe, Of The Sunshine, Of Our Physical Body Itself, Of Everything In The World, However Great Or However Small — Except Life.