The year that Rutherford died there disappeared for ever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth. Science has lost her freedom. Science has become a productive force. She has become rich but she has become enslaved and part of her is veiled in secrecy.

Address to the Royal Society in Honour of Lord Rutherford, Nature, Volume 210, Number 5038, 17 May 1966 (p. 783)