Gentlemen, We Have Run Out Of Money.

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 Unsociable, Wrong-headed Fellow Working On Unprofitable Lines, And In His Hands Lies The Hope Of Discovery.

All Of Physics Is Either Impossible Or Trivial. It Is Impossible Until You Understand It, And Then It Becomes Trivial.

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

[from Uranium] There Are Present At Least Two Distinct Types Of Radiation One That Is Very Readily Absorbed, Which Will Be Termed For Convenience The α Radiation, And The Other Of A More Penetrative Character, Which Will Be Termed The β Radiation.

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.