Wilhelm Rontgen quotes

Wilhelm Rontgen quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I did not think; I experimented.”
-- Wilhelm Rontgen

#Thinking Quotes
“There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy.”
-- Wilhelm Rontgen

#Busy Quotes
“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 Rontgen

#Dark Quotes #Expression Quotes #Hands Quotes
“Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.”
-- Wilhelm Rontgen

#Thinking Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Likes Quotes
“RÃ¶ntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.”
-- Wilhelm Rontgen

#Distance Quotes #Order Quotes #Limits Quotes
“Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.”
-- Wilhelm Rontgen

#Distance Quotes #Order Quotes #Atoms Quotes

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