Wilhelm Rontgen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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

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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

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Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.
-- Wilhelm Rontgen

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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

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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 #Order #Atoms

Think it over, think it under.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

Wilhelm Rontgen famous quotes

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