Godfrey Hounsfield Quotes

#1. On a farm, you can get very bored.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#2. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Anonymous

#3. Light has a battery life; darkness has none! Light is finite; darkness is infinite!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. During the development of the whole-body CT scanner, it became clear that the availability of an accurate cross-sectional picture of the body, the CT 'slice,' would have an important effect on the precision and implementation of radiotherapy treatment planning.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#5. In the past, radiation treatment planning has been a very lengthy procedure. Now, with the aid of CT therapy-planning computer programs, we can position the therapy beams automatically with precision in a few minutes.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#6. Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta!

Willie D

#7. I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

Pink

#8. Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It's amazing what you can get by the ability to reason things out by conventional methods, getting down to the basics of what is happening.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#9. In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

Gerald Clarke

#10. I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#11. Aeroplanes interested me, and at the outbreak of the Second World War, I joined the RAF as a volunteer reservist. I took the opportunity of studying the books which the RAF made available for radio mechanics and looked forward to an interesting course in radio.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#12. What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

Seneca The Younger

#13. Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.

Godfrey Hounsfield