In short, we knew very little about the German uranium project, and what little we knew we almost invariably interpreted in their favor. In the long … - Samuel Goudsmit

I did all the problems a little different from the rest of the class.

... I don't like the history of physics, I have always been against the way in which the historians wrote about it in earlier days. Nowadays it is better, someone like Martin Klein, that is real, he brings something new. But the earlier historians always described physics as if it had been done by three and four people and they forgot that these famous people could only do their work because of the many others who also made contributions. ...

In my study hangs a fine old horse shoe, which I found in an abandoned Western ghost town. I don't believe in superstitions, but it is supposed to work even for a nonbeliever². It hasn't so far.