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….

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

Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an un….

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 o….

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

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

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..

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

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

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't..

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned cl….

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 evi….

All science is either physics or stamp collecting..

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of th….

Now I know what the atom looks like..

The more physics you have the less engineering you need..

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think..

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work.".

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

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting..