Charles Glover Barkla Quotes

#1. The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.

Charles Glover Barkla

#2. As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.

Charles Glover Barkla

#3. It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.

Charles Glover Barkla

#4. We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.

Charles Glover Barkla

#5. The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

Charles Glover Barkla

#6. When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.

Charles Glover Barkla