William Crookes

England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land…

— William Crookes

Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of…

— William Crookes

The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They…

— William Crookes

The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state,…

— William Crookes

Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on…

— William Crookes

Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out…

— William Crookes

“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even…

— William Crookes

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even…

— William Crookes

Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of…

— William Crookes

Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost…

— William Crookes

...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature,…

— William Crookes

It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.

— William Crookes

Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow…

— William Crookes

To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or…

— William Crookes