1. “All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it and then it becomes trivial.”
2. “If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.”
3. “The more physics you have the less engineering you need.”
4. “If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.”
5. “The energy produced by the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.”
6. “We haven’t got the money, so we’ve got to think.”
7. “The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is : some do, some don’t.”
8. “I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to board and simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.”
9. “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
10. “A theory that you can’t explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.”
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