Gentlemen, We Have Run Out Of Money.

If, As I Have Reason To Believe, I Have Disintegrated The Nucleus Of The Atom, This Is Of Greater Significance Than The War.

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.

I Have To Keep Going, As There Are Always People On My Track. I Have To Publish My Present Work As Rapidly As Possible In Order To Keep In The Race. The Best Sprinters In This Road Of Investigation Are Becquerel And The Curies.

If Your Result Needs A Statistician Then You Should Design A Better Experiment.

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.