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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

Now I know what the atom looks like.

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."

Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.

We haven't got the money, so we'll have to think

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

The more physics you have the less engineering you need.

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't.

If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

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.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It's time to start thinking.