Cathode Rays Quotes & Sayings

Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode rays is clearly presupposed to be necessary ... and this assumption is untenable. — Arthur Schuster

If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they would behave exactly like the cathode rays. — Joseph John Thomson

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the cathode rays carry a charge of negative electricity, are deflected by an electrostatic force as if they were negatively electrified, and are acted on by a magnetic force in just the way in which this force would act on a negatively electrified body moving along the path of these rays, I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter. — Joseph John Thomson

From the bleakest storms come the brightest rainbows. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone. — Nathan East

Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver. — John Logie Baird

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back. — Christian Louboutin

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory. — Judy Woodruff

The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas, — Nam June Paik

There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes. — John Logie Baird

Free huffed. "It's hardly my fault you made a hero of my father."
"No," he said softly. "But every bloody time I convince myself I ought to walk away from you ... "
"Well," she said simply, "you wouldn't have that problem if you stopped convincing yourself of stupid things. — Courtney Milan

I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things ... People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God. — Billy Graham

And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable. — Neale Donald Walsch

The only real problem in life is what to do next. — Arthur C. Clarke

So you , too , must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person — Paulo Coelho

Standing side by side, on some rising ground, they felt, as they drank in the air, the pride of a life more free penetrating into the depths of their souls, with a superabundance of energy, a joy which they could not explain. — Gustave Flaubert

Do not be content with an imaginary god. — Allen Grossman

You have to tell him 'go toodles, Bits, go toodles for momma,'" I said, pitching my voice high in imitation, "or else he won't go." Blane looked at me. "I'm not doing that," he said flatly. "But then he'll go on the bed," I protested. "How about I just point my gun at him," he deadpanned. — Tiffany Snow

I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America. — Allen Ginsberg