The Energy Produced By The Breaking Down

I Must Confess It Was Very Unexpected And I Am Very Startled At My Metamorphosis Into A Chemist.

You Should Never Bet Against Anything In Science At Odds Of More Than About 10-12 To 1.

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.

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.

The Greatest Contributor To The Feeling Of Tension And Fear Of War Arose From The Power Of The Bombing Aeroplane. If All Nations Would Consent To Abolish Air Bombardment . . . That Would Mean The Greatest Possible Release From Fear.