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

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

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1

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

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

[Recalling in 1936 the discovery of the nucleus in 1909, when some alpha particles were observed instead of travelling through a very thin gold foil were seen to rebound backward, as if striking something much more massive than the particles themselves. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.]