Wilhelm Conrad R C3 B6ntgen Quotes

#1. War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. It's good to shut up sometimes.

Marcel Marceau

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Rontgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new ...

Alexander Fleming

#6. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.

Colleen McCullough

#7. The passion of love separated its victim terribly from everyone but the loved object.

Henry James

#8. ...the race isn't over until the checker flies.

Garth Stein

#9. My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.

Kyle Kinane

#10. Cooking is both simpler and more necessary than we imagine.

Tamar Adler

#11. That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian.

Philip Yancey

#12. All times are connected; past, present and future.

Lailah Gifty Akita