Don't Let Me Catch Anyone Talking About

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

The Year 1896 ... Marked The Beginning Of What Has Been Aptly Termed The Heroic Age Of Physical Science. Never Before In The History Of Physics Has There Been Witnessed Such A Period Of Intense Activity When Discoveries Of Fundamental Importance Have Followed One Another With Such Bewildering Rapidity.

Should A Young Scientist Working With Me Come To Me After Two Years Of Such Work And Ask Me What To Do Next, I Would Advise Him To Get Out Of Science. After Two Years Of Work, If A Man Does Not Know What To Do Next, He Will Never Make A Real Scientist.

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.

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.