X Rays Quotes

“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

“I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.”
― Douglas Coupland

“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 Röntgen

“Since the stomach gives no obvious external sign of its workings, investigators of gastric movements have hitherto been obliged to confine their studies to pathological subjects or to animals subjected to serious operative interference. Observations made under these necessarily abnormal conditions have yielded a literature which is full of conflicting statements and uncertain results. The only sure conclusion to be drawn from this material is that when the stomach receives food, obscure peristaltic contractions are set going, which in some way churn the food to a liquid chyme and force it into the intestines. How imperfectly this describes the real workings of the stomach will appear from the following account of the actions of the organ studied by a new method. The mixing of a small quantity of subnitrate of bismuth with the food allows not only the contractions of the gastric wall, but also the movements of the gastric contents to be seen with the Röntgen rays in the uninjured animal during normal digestion.”
― Walter Bradford Cannon

“أيّة صورةٍ مشؤومة هذه، أن نرى الشكل الذي سنؤول إليه بعد سبع سنوات في التابوت. لكنّه أمرٌ مهم، فهذه هي الطريقة التي يتطوّر بها الطب، ولأجل هذا نفكّر في الحياة: بسبب التفكير في الموت”
― Afonso Cruz, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“سنتمكّن يومًا ما من طباعة الروح على لوح رصاص. لكنّني أظنّ أنّنا حاليًّا لا نستطيع أن نرىٰ إلّا صورة عظامنا”
― Afonso Cruz, O Pintor Debaixo do Lava-Loiças

“Once I saw an X-ray of a heart and I was alarmed by its smallness, its translucence. A thing we ask entirely too much of.”
― Laura van den Berg, The Isle of Youth: Stories