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From The Results So Far Obtained It Is Difficult To Avoid The Conclusion That The Long-range Atoms Arising From Collision Of Alpha Particles With Nitrogen Are Not Nitrogen Atoms But Probably Atoms Of Hydrogen, Or Atoms Of Mass 2. If This Be The Case, We Must Conclude That The Nitrogen Atom Is Disintegrated Under The Intense Forces Developed In A Close Collision With A Swift Alpha Particle, And That The Hydrogen Atom Which Is Liberated Formed A Constituent Part Of The Nitrogen Nucleus.

When We Have Found How The Nucleus Of Atoms Is Built Up We Shall Have Found The Greatest Secret Of All — Except Life. We Shall Have Found The Basis Of Everything — Of The Earth We Walk On, Of The Air We Breathe, Of The Sunshine, Of Our Physical Body Itself, Of Everything In The World, However Great Or However Small — Except Life.

I Am A Great Believer In The Simplicity Of Things And As You Probably Know I Am Inclined To Hang On To Broad & Simple Ideas Like Grim Death Until Evidence Is Too Strong For My Tenacity.

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

Splitting The Atom Is Like Trying To Shoot A Gnat In The Albert Hall At Night And Using Ten Million Rounds Of Ammunition On The Off Chance Of Getting It. That Should Convince You That The Atom Will Always Be A Sink Of Energy And Never A Reservoir Of Energy.