Rontgen Quotes & Sayings

If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself ... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'. — Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

We all have the same destiny. The difference is opening ourselves up to possibilities to joy, hope, and happiness along the way. Give yourself and others a chance to take advantage of what's out there and available. — Diane Ladd

Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth! — Stephen D. Krashen

A man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet. — John Barth

Dear Police:
You can't protect me and be scared of me. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. — Bill Gates

To remain silent is to give the impression that one has no opinions, that one wants nothing, and in certain cases it really amounts to wanting nothing. — Albert Camus

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.) — Wilhelm Rontgen

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate. — Debra Winger

Poverty will leave you when you are ready to welcome opportunities. — Debasish Mridha

There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy. — Wilhelm Rontgen

I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench there. I had been passing a current through the tube, and I noticed a peculiar black line across the paper ...
The effect was one which could only be produced in ordinary parlance by the passage of light. No light could come from the tube because the shield which covered it was impervious to any light known even that of the electric arc ...
I did not think I investigated ...
I assumed that the effect must have come from the tube since its character indicated that it could come from nowhere else ... It seemed at first a new kind of invisible light. It was clearly something new something unrecorded ...
There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy.
[Describing to a journalist the discovery of X-rays that he had made on 8 Nov 1895.] — Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

A bead of cold sweat dangled on my fingertip before dripping onto the doorbell. What if I got electrocuted from my wet fingers? I would die literally inches from my first high school party. And everyone would be like, oh, poor thing was so nervous, what a tragedy. Death by sweat. — Lindsey Leavitt

Only a mediocre team is always at its best, — Charles Fountain

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities. — Hans Jonas

While the world is "entertaining themselves to death," we are working and resting. This is the essence of the fourth commandment. We work for God and we rest in God (Heb. 4: 10). — Kevin Swanson

Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares. — Dario Argento

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

The species or nature with which we make our choices is fallen, sinful, selfish, and stupid; and we cannot by our own power attain the deepest and final end of our desires, union with God, eternal happiness. Thus, — Peter Kreeft

I did not think; I experimented. — Wilhelm Rontgen

For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Rontgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new ... — Alexander Fleming