Quotes About X Rays

#1. Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

Andrew Young

#2. Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

Lord Kelvin

#3. Oh, the power of the delete. It felt fabulous. I wished I could go around deleting like crazy. I'd delete suspicious spots on X-rays and malls at Christmas, car troubles and tragic events in history, the world's and my own.

Deb Caletti

#4. Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules.

William Henry Bragg

#5. My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.

Joey Bishop

#6. I could have had a session of defecography, which is a diagnostic test in which X-rays are taken to assess anatomical problems occurring during the process of defecation. I gave it the briefest of thoughts before recognizing that this is beyond the pale - even for me.

Mary Roach

#7. 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

#8. Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc.

Peter Menzel

#9. [With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

Ruby Wax

#10. X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

Thomas A. Edison

#11. Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?

Richard Carmona

#12. When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

Henny Youngman

#13. Experienced radiologists who evaluate chest X-rays as "normal" or "abnormal" contradict themselves 20% of the time when they see the same picture on separate occasions.

Daniel Kahneman

#14. Without accepting some risk we would never have had vaccines, X-rays, airplanes, or antibiotics. Caution is simply a different kind of risk, one that is even more likely to kill people

Michael Specter

#15. I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

Douglas Coupland

#16. I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days
With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays
I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT
Now it's a daily word

Rakim

#17. X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.

Sam Kean

#18. In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

Claude Nicollier

#19. Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

Sam Kean

#20. We really should get some X-rays," the EMT said.
"You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts," I said to the EMT.

Darynda Jones

#21. He was the man I mentioned who was obsessed by the idea that he had cancer, although X-rays had proved to him that it was all imaginary. Who or what caused this idea? It obviously derived from a fear that was not caused by observation of the facts. It suddenly overcame him and then remained.

C. G. Jung

#22. 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

#23. For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.

Louis De Broglie

#24. [Our children] walk among us like mirrors, our X-rays. In them we see what we love but also what we'd like to forget about ourselves. Our shortcomings are forever enshrined.

Anat Talshir

#25. For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.

Max Von Laue

#26. To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#27. Lewis Carroll and J. M. Barrie were very strange men, and such is the nature of the written word that their personal strangeness shines straight through all the layers of Disneyfication like X-rays through a wall. Probably

Neal Stephenson

#28. Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.
(Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays)

William Cecil Dampier

#29. My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US).

John Gofman

#30. The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

Ernest Rutherford

#31. His words swirled around my head, and I heard the doctor at the hospital in Phoenix, last spring, as he showed me the X-rays. You can see it's a clean break, his finger traced along the picture of my severed bone. That's good. It will heal more easily, more quickly.

Stephenie Meyer

#32. The very effect of X-rays killing rapidly dividing cells - DNA damage - also created cancer-causing mutations in genes.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#33. The entire electromagnetic spectrum - from radar to TV, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, microwaves, and gamma rays - is nothing but Maxwell waves, which in turn are vibrating Faraday force fields.

Michio Kaku

#34. If the heart of the problem is the problem of the heart - which it is - you'll never cure the disease you're suffering from by doing X-rays on other people.

Matt Chandler

#35. Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

George Burns

#36. Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly
they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

Aldous Huxley

#37. In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

John Cameron

#38. As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence.

Compton Mackenzie

#39. There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

Allen Frances

#40. The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society's weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

#41. Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

Red Buttons

#42. I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.

Thomas Harris

#43. By showing a picture, you're showing an x-ray of your heart.

Ralph Steiner

#44. I just went to the doctor today, I got a chest X-ray of my lungs and discovered that my breasts are uneven.

Jennifer Lawrence

#45. A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

Dorothy Hodgkin